E. San Juan, Jr.

Who is E. San Juan, Jr.?

Epifanio San Juan, Jr., also known as E. San Juan, Jr., is a known Filipino American literary academic, mentor, cultural reviewer, civic intellectual, activist, writer, essayist, video/film maker, editor, and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Filipino languages have been translated into German, Russian, French, Italian, and Chinese. As an author of books on race and cultural studies, he was a “major influence on the academic world”. He was the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut in the United States. In 1999, San Juan, Jr. received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.