Department of English Chair and Program Lead of the UST Graduate School English Language Cluster Prof. Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao, Ph.D., was elected President of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP), the premier linguistics organization of the country.
Lintao now leads the 55-year old organization from 2024 to 2027. She was LSP鈥檚 vice president in 2021-2024 and treasurer in 2018-2021. She is at the helm of the 12-member board of directors who are from varied institutions and organizations in the country and abroad; namely, De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, University of the Philippines Diliman, Ateneo de Zamboanga, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, University of Hawaii in Hilo, and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Dr. Lintao is the fourth LSP president from UST. The former presidents include Asst. Prof. Anna Maria Gloria Ward, Prof. Marilu Madrunio, Ph.D., and Prof. Alejandro Bernardo, Ph.D., who are all from the Department of English.
