Epifanio San Juan Jr., also known as E. San Juan Jr. (born December 29, 1938) , at Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines), is a known Filipino American literary academic, Tagalog writer, Filipino poet, civic intellectual, activist, writer, essayist, video/film maker, editor, and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Tagalog writings have been translated into German, Russian, French, Italian, and Chinese. As an author of books on race and cultural studies, he was a “major influence on the academic world”. He was the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut in the United States. In 1999, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.
San Juan received his elementary education in the Philippines at the Bonifacio Elementary School. He took secondary education at Jose Abad Santos High. He graduated as a magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines in 1958. He received his masters degree in 1962. He obtained a PhD degree from Harvard University in 1965 while under a Rockefeller fellowship. He was a fellow of the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.