Resil B. Mojares
Resil Mojares is a Filipino literature ambassador, historian and critic. He has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is retired as Professor at the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City. He was founding director (1975–96) of USC's Cebuano Studies Center, a pioneering local studies center in the Philippines.
He has authored books in Philippine history, literature, and politics, including studies on three eminent Filipino intellectuals (Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes).
He has been a recipient of six Philippine National Book Awards. His other books include The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu Province; Aboitiz: Family & Firm in the Philippines; House of Memory: Essays; and Vicente Sotto, The Maverick Senator, Cebuano Studies Center (1992)
Mojares has been a visiting professor at the University of Kyoto, The National University of Singapore and the University of California at Los Angeles where he lectures on "The Philippine Novel," and "Topics in Philippine Cultural History"
He is writing the History of Cebu Province for the Cebu Town History Project.