Frances Cruz
Frances Cruz is a PhD student in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp and the Department of Political Science at the University of Gent. Her current project involves tracing the colonial and securitized roots of Muslim representation in the Philippines through the digital textual analyses of historical newspapers and contemporary print and social media. This project and her policy-related work as the co-convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program at the University of the Philippines’ Center for Integrative and Development Studies have driven her interest in decolonial, intercultural and linguistic policies.
A Tale of Two Crises: A Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Online Discourses and Narratives of Security during the Mamasapano Clash (2015) and Marawi Siege (2017)
In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.
Current research projects:
A Tale of Two Crises: A Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Online Discourses and Narratives of Security during the Mamasapano Clash (2015) and Marawi Siege (2017)
In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.