Premise: Resil B. Mojares is a Filipino ambassador, historian, and critic of Philippine literature. He has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. A retired Professor at the University of San Carlos (USC) in Cebu City, he was a founding director (1975–96) of USC's Cebuano Studies Center, a pioneering local studies center in the Philippines.
Hypothesis: Resil B. Mojares spoke several languages