Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman. His latest publication is an essay on the representation of Siargao and islandic space in several chosen films, published in Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia (Springer). Thomas has several upcoming publications on Philippine gothic literature and Philippine horror cinema. His research interests include but are not limited to: gothic and horror studies, memory studies, and Philippine literature.