Jazmin B. Llana
Full Professor
Educational Background
AB in English
Aquinas Unversity of Legaspi, Philippines
MA in Theather Arts
University of the Philippines- Diliman, Philippines
PhD in Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Aberystwyth University- University of Wales, United Kingdom
Jazmin Badong Llana is a Full Professor of drama, theater and performance studies at the Literature Department of De La Salle University. She has a Master of Arts in Theater Arts degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman and completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom as a Ford Foundation international fellow from 2006 to 2009. She has served as department chair (2016-2017) and recently dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2017-2020). In Philippine academia she has pioneered the teaching and practice of performance studies as a new field of inquiry, setting up a network of academics and artists working in the field of performance in the country and linking the university to communities of artists, primarily in theater and performance. Her work with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts – mainly with the National Committee on Dramatic Arts has allowed her to sustain links to members of this network and to bring them into international collaboration by means of her work with Performance Studies international (www.psi-web.org), where is currently the (outgoing) Vice President (2018-2022). She served as Head of the NCCA National Committee on Dramatic Arts in 2014-2016 and is currently a member of its Executive Council, while also serving as General Editor of Saliksik Kultura: The NCCA Research Journal. In 2016, she initiated the establishment of the NCCA Research Program and led the program as chair of the Research Technical Working Group. The program is now in its fifth year, providing grants and awards for research projects on culture and the arts by individuals and groups across the country. In the field of literature, she is associated with the recent flourishing of Bicol literature, having initiated Pagsurat Bikol, the conference of Bicol writers, in 2000, which has since been held every four years; the conference held online in 2021 was its sixth edition. Her international work includes being Associate Editor of , the Routledge Journal of the Performing Arts. Recent publications include essays on politics and performance in Theatre Research International (Cambridge University Press) Performance Research (Routledge) and a chapter in the book Thinking Through Theatre and Performance (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama). She is the recipient of the 2022 Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez of the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).
Research Interest
- Performance Studies
- Literary Studies
- Theater Arts (Performance, Malikhaing Pagsulat, Technical Theater Management.)
- Philippine Drama
- Theater and Theater Studies
- Bikol Literature
- Performance Research
Selected Publications
- “Together Apart: Stillness, Sociality, and the Precarity of Performance in the Time of Covid-19.” Covid-19 Lockdown in the Philippines: Perspectives, Experiences, and Research Leads, edited by Dinah Roma, vol. 2, Social Development Research Center and 开元真人Press, 2021 (forthcoming).
- “Vernacular Religiosity and 鈥淕race鈥� in Bicol Christian Devotion.” Banwaan, vol. 1, no. 1, 2021, https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/Banwaan/article/view/8552.
- “To Rest in the Gap: Possibilities for Another Politics through Theatre.” The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, edited by Peter Eckersall and Helena Grehan, Routledge, 2019, pp. 127-30.
- “How Does Theatre Think through Politics?” Thinking through Theater and Performance, edited by Maaike Bleeker et al., Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019, pp. 211-24.
- Llana, Jazmin Badong. “A Sea of Stories: Archipelagic Gatherings and Roro Journeys.” Performance Research, vol. 23, no. 4-5, 2018, pp. 256-61, doi:10.1080/13528165.2018.1512211.