About

Cultural, Literary, and Art Studies Society, Inc. (CLASS)

This organization of Filipino professors and scholars is a non-stock, non-profit corporation. The officers are Dr. Maria Luisa Torres Reyes (president), Dr. Joyce Arriola, Dr. Hope Sabanpan Yu, Dr. Victor Emmanuel Carmelo Nadera, and Dr. Shirley O. Lua; who are also members of the Technical Committee on Literature, under the Technical Panel on the Humanities of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The members comprise teachers, scholars, and writers affiliated with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines.

The purposes of the corporation include the following:

To promote and facilitate the sharing of ideas and expertise between and among researchers, scholars of literary, cultural and art studies, as well as faculty members of literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, culture, the arts and related fields of study like language studies and critical pedagogy, in institutions of higher learning and senior high school;

To create and promote a community of faculty members, practitioners, researchers and scholars of the above-mentioned fields of study nationally and internationally;

To provide a venue for active and relevant engagement in abovementioned fields of study by holding national and international conferences, meetings and colloquia, and conducting workshops and seminars regularly;

To help advance knowledge in the above-mentioned fields of study by undertaking disciplinary and interdisciplinary projects, approaches, and methodologies that will enrich and deepen relevant scholarship and critical pedagogy in the abovementioned fields of study.

ON THIS WEBSITE

The AB Literature Philippines website is an initiative of CLASS, in cooperation with the CHED Technical Committee on Literature, in response to the national demand for alternative resource materials for flexible instruction and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the electronic inaccessibility of Philippine publications and resources, this website seeks to address this deficiency and provide selective texts, modules and other pedagogical aids as a modest assistance to the literature teachers in the Philippines. This site’s resource materials are in conjunction with the curriculum guidelines indicated in CHED CMO No. 21, series of 2017.

We are grateful to the writers, teachers, and module authors who have generously given their materials and graciously granted permission for their publication in this site and for use in the online classroom.

We appreciate the kind assistance of the CHED Secretariat of the Technical Panel on the Humanities.

CLASS officers and the CHED Technical Committee on Literature can be reached via email tclit.ched@gmail.com.