Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

Editor-in-Chief

Dinah Roma, De La Salle University, Philippines

Managing Editors

Carlos Piocos III, De La Salle University, Philippines

Kervin Calabias, De La Salle University, Philippines

Associate Editors

Rina Garcia Chua, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jeremy de Chavez, University of Macau, Macau SAR

Ella Parry-Davies, King’s College of London, UK

International Advisory Board

Nerissa Balce, State University of New York Stony Brook, USA

David Jonathan Bayot, De La Salle University, Philippines

Melani Budianta , Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

Felipe Cervera, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Leo Tsu-shin Ching, Duke University, USA

Suradech Chotiudompant, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Roland Sintos Coloma, Miami University, USA

Catherine Diamond, Soochow University, Taiwan

Robert Diaz, University of Toronto, Canada

Mick Douglas, RMIT University, Australia

J. Neil Garcia, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

Richard Gough, Falmouth University, UK

Taufiq Hanafi, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Caroline Hau, Kyoto University, Japan

Philip Holden, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hayato Kosuge, Keio University, Japan

AW Lee, Queen’s University, Canada

Tarun Tupas Mukherjee, Bhatter College, India

Jonathan Ong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Paul Rae, University of Melbourne, Australia

Vicente Rafael, University of Washington, USA

Theron Schmidt, University of New South Wales, Australia

Gwee Li Sui, Singapore

Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University, Canada

Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Yale-NUS College, Singapore