JOHN BEVERLEY

PhD, University of California at San Diego
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
Adjunct Professor, English and communication departments

1309E Cathedral of Learning
412-624-6382
brq@pitt.edu

Focus: Golden Age, Hispanic and Latin American baroque, Latin American cultural studies, Testimonio, Spanish and Latin American film, U.S. Latino literature, postcolonial and subaltern studies

Publications

Selected recent articles:

"Notes on Miami," boundary 2 23/2 (1996); "Theses on subalternity, representation, and politics," Postcolonial Studies 1/3 (1998); essays on G. Gugelberger, ed. The Real Thing. Testimonial Discourse in Latin America (1996); "What Happens When the Subaltern Speaks? Rigoberta Menchu, Multiculturalism, and the 'Presumption of Equal Worth'," in Arturo Arias ed. The Power of Words: A Reader on the Stoll-Menchu Debate" (1999); " The Impossibility of Politics: Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony", in Ileana Rodríguez ed. The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader (2001).

Recent books:

(ed.) From Cuba (2002); (ed.) La voz del otro: Testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa (new edition; 2002). Subalternity and Representation, Arguments in Cultural Theory (1999); Una modernidad obsoleta: estudios sobre el barroco (1998); Against Literature (1993).

Previous books:

Aspects of Gongora's 'Soledades' (1980); Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo (1987); Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions (1990). Edited books: Ideologia y critica literaria (1981); Texto y sociedad: Problemas de historia literaria (1990); La voz del otro: testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa (1993); The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (1995).

University Affiliations

Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Founding member, Latin American Subaltern Studies Group

Editorial Boards

University of Pittsburgh Press, boundary 2, PMLA (1994-1998), Estudios, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies etc.

Editorial consultant for University of Minnesota and Duke University presses. Co-editor, University of Pittsburgh Press book series Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas.

Visiting professor at Stanford University, University of California–San Diego, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, University of Minnesota, University of Washinigton.