Allana Yasmin Villaspin is a Part-Time Instructor under the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies and the General Education Department of the College of Culture, Arts, and Sports at Cebu Normal University. Outside of scholarly pursuits, she serves as a business consultant and is a creative writer. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the University of Southern Philippines Foundation and is currently in the final stages of her Master of Arts in Literature at Cebu Normal University, where she is working on her thesis. Together with a research partner, she presented a paper at a literary conference and is currently awaiting publication, with plans for further research ahead. Her research interests focus on feminism and psychology, particularly exploring implicit and explicit trauma in both Philippine and Anglo-American fiction, as well as contemporary feminist narratives.