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Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., PhD (Butch Dalisay) |
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JOSE Y. DALISAY JR., PhD
Telephone: +632-926-3496 (Office) +632-433-1863 (Fax)
Mobile: +63917-5300951
E-Mail: jdalisay@up.edu.ph and penmanila@yahoo.com
Blog: http://homepage.mac.com/jdalisay/blog/MyBlog.html
Mailing Address: 9 Juan Luna, UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
Dr. Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (Butch Dalisay to readers of his “Penman” column in the Philippine STAR) was born in Romblon, Philippines in 1954.
He graduated from the Philippine Science High School in 1970. After dropping out of college to work as a journalist, followed by a period of imprisonment under martial law in 1973, he graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1984 (AB English, cum laude), and then received an MFA from the University of Michigan (1988) and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1991) on a Fulbright-Hays grant.
He teaches English and Creative Writing as a full professor at the University of the Philippines, where he also serves as coordinator of the creative writing program and as an Associate of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. After serving for three years as chairman of the English Department, he assumed the post of Vice President for Public Affairs of the UP System from May 2003 to February 2005.
He has published 15 books of his stories, plays, and essays, with five of those books receiving the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. In 1998, he was named to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Centennial Honors List as one of the 100 most accomplished Filipino artists of the past century.
His books are Oldtimer and Other Stories (Asphodel, 1984; UP Press, 2003); Sarcophagus and Other Stories (UP Press, 1992); Killing Time in a Warm Place (Anvil, 1992); Sarcophagus and Other Stories (Anvil, 1992); Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig (UP Press, 1993); Penmanship and Other Stories (Cacho, 1995); The Island (Ayala Foundation, 1996); Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino (UP Press, 1996); Mac Malicsi, TNT/Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog (UP Press, 1997); The Lavas: A Filipino Family (Anvil, 1999); The Best of Barfly (Anvil, 1997); The Filipino Flag (Inquirer Publications, 2004); Man Overboard (Milflores, 2005); Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel (Ayala Foundation, 2005); Selected Stories (UP Press, 2005); and The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction (UP Press, 2006).
He has also worked as a professional editor. He served as Executive Editor of the ten-volume Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People (Manila: Asia Publishing/Readers’ Digest Asia, 1998). His clients have included the Asian Development Bank, the Ayala Foundation, SGV & Co., the National Economic and Development Authority, the Office of the President, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation, among others. Aside from his column for the STAR, he also writes political and social commentary for the newsmagazine Newsbreak and the San Francisco-based Filipinas magazine.
Among his distinctions, he has won 16 Palanca Awards in five genres (entering the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2000); five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for playwriting; and Famas, Urian, Star and Catholic Film awards and citations for his screenplays. In 1992 he chaired the ASEAN Writers Conference/Workshop, in Penang, Malaysia. He was named one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 1993 for his creative writing. In 2005 he received the Premio Cervara di Roma in Italy for his work in promoting Philippine literature abroad.
He has been a Hawthornden Castle, British Council, David Wong, and Rockefeller (Bellagio) fellow, and has held the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair at the Ateneo and the Jose Joya, Jorge Bocobo, and Elpidio Quirino professorial chairs at the UP. He has lectured on Philippine culture and politics at the University of Michigan, University of Auckland, Australia National University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, St. Norbert College, University of East Anglia, University of Rome, and the London School of Economics, among others.
He is married to the artist June Poticar Dalisay; they have one daughter, Demi, born 1974.
His other interests include Macintosh computers, old fountain pens, '50s watches, and Volkswagen Beetles.
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