Leslie Anne L. Liwanag, Ph.D. is an faculty member at the School of Innovation and Sustainability, De La Salle University at Laguna: A Knowledge, Innovation, Science, and Technology Ecozone of the Republic of the Philippines. At 26, she completed her doctor’s degree in Philippine Studies (with a specialization in Language, Culture, and Media) at the same university with a dissertation on the contributions of Isabelo de los Reyes to Philippine Studies. 

Her teaching stint includes serving as a Full-Time Faculty Member at research-intensive universities in the country such as Visayas State University, Central Luzon State University, and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

She served as the Managing Editor of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) Research Journal and the Project Manager of the Andrew Gonzalez Philippine Citation Index. She is a Visiting Research Professor at the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., from 2021 to 2023 and at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024, and at the Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, U.S.A. from 2024 to 2025. 

She co-leads AI-assisted research mentoring workshops on the responsible and effective use of generative AI for academic research at DLSU, the Philippines’ top-ranked university for AI research according to EduRank 2026. Her scholarly contributions early in her career earned her a nomination for the St. Miguel Febres Cordero Pillar of Lasallian Excellence Award in Research at DLSU’s Annual Pillars.

Her research interests and works span Philippine and Asian Studies, media and cultural studies, Filipino philosophy and intellectual history, religion and society, cultural identity and representation, and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary social issues.