Jillian Loise Melchor Author

Jillian Loise Melchor is assistant professor and Italian section coordinator of the Department of European Languages of the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was a former faculty member of the Division of Humanities of UP Visayas where she taught Spanish, literary translation, and cultural studies. Her master’s degree in multilingual cultural studies was funded by the Erasmus Mundus academic council and was obtained from the Universities of Sheffield (UK), Bergamo (Italy), and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). She is currently doing research on decolonizing creole language heritage under the doctoral programme in language studies of the University of Helsinki (Finland) while preparing the manuscript for a forthcoming monograph on Italian travel writing about the Philippine Islands. She is a published literary translator and has international, peer-reviewed publications examining the link between language and power in fields such as multilingual heritage, language education policy, and postcolonial linguistics.