John Beverley

University Affiliations

• Founding member of the 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 the University of Minnesota and Duke University Press. Coeditor, 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 Washington.

Degrees

• PhD, University of California at San Diego

Selected Publications

• "The Impossibility of Politics: Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony," in Ileana Rodríguez ed. The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader (2001)
• "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)
• "Theses on subalternity, representation, and politics," Postcolonial Studies 1/3 (1998)
• (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).

Areas of Specialization

• 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