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JESCL Volume 22 (2024-2025) This volume of JESCL will be available for viewing on June 12, 2026

This issue is a snapshot of an English department in flux. Like most educators, our faculty are teaching in new circumstances, learning to work online and offline, both inside and beyond our classrooms. We are reimagining our graduate programs, restructuring our committees, and exploring synergies between the curricular areas of Language, Literature, and Creative Writing.

Others is what we call those who fall outside the majority. The majority has been concentrated into a choking urban setting. Setting aside the casket, fans, card-games to raise funds, snacks of crackers and coffee, there is also the continuity of grief. Grief is not an animal.

The Sugidanon, or the epic tradition in Panay, is a rich source of material that allows us to see and understand how the experiences of the folk are inscribed in literature and how such literary forms can be reflective of the folk’s consciousness, specifically in terms of how it sees itself in relation not only to other humans, but to the natural world at large.

London features prominently in Virginia Woolf’s works; among them Mrs. Dalloway and a collection of essays called The London Scene. The location not only serves as a backdrop for Woolf’s narratives, but also provides insights into women’s lives in relation to urban space in the early twentieth century.

Poems about the law belie the claim that poetry and law are incompatible fields. Poets who write about the law have critiqued it, insisting that it ought to serve more than just the personal interests of lawyers and judges, as well as the interests of only the rich and powerful. This insistence, however, has not translated into new ways of imagining the law particularly in Philippine Anglophone literature. 

The writings in “De Espectáculos” do not just generate discourse but, especially for the twenty-first century reader who has no access to primary archival evidence of early film audiences, produce real people—the textual and the discursive are involved in the material production of life.