José Wendell Capili

Jose Wendell Capili is a poet and academic from the Philippines.

Capili was educated at the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, University of Tokyo and University of Cambridge. He received Carlos Palanca, Cultural Center of the Philippines and University of the Philippines awards for Literature; and scholarships, grants and fellowships from the Cambridge Overseas Trust, British Council, The Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho), University of Tokyo, UNESCO Japan, Waseda University, University of Hong Kong/Standard Chartered Bank, Seoul National University/Korea Foundation, University of Malaya Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya Cultural Centre, University of the Philippines and Australian National University.

Capili is an Associate Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines. He is the author of A Madness of Birds (Poetry, University of the Philippines Press, 1998); Bloom and Memory (Essays, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2002) and Mabuhay to Beauty! (Pop Culture, Milflores Publishing, 2003). His works have been published in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Austria, Malaysia, Singapore, England, Australia and the United States including The Literary Review (USA), The Poet’s Voice (University of Graz, Austria), Korea Times, Korea Herald, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Manila Chronicle, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento, Diliman Review(University of the Philippines), Bulawan(National Commission on Culture and the Arts), Solidarity, Caracoa, Anagram (Johns Hopkins University), Mabuhay(Philippine Air Lines), Sands and Coral (Silliman University), Tomas(University of Santo Tomas). Budhi (Ateneo de Manila University), Philippine Studies(Ateneo de Manila University), Love Gathers All: Philippine-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry (Singapore: Ethos Press & Pasig: Anvil Publishing), Flippin: Filipinos on America (New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop), and Westerly (University of Western Australia).

Capili is currently working on a research project about Southeast Asian Diaspora Writers in Australia at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. In 2005, he was Visiting Scholar at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS); Department of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney; School of Creative Arts (SCA) and School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Sciences (SAGES), University of Melbourne; and The Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.