John Beverley

John Beverley is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught since 1969. He earned his PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Beverley is a founding member of the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and a founding member of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. His research specializations encompass the Golden Age, Hispanic and Latin American baroque, Latin American cultural studies, testimonio, Spanish and Latin American film, U.S. Latino literature, postcolonial studies, and subaltern studies. He has explored the literary Baroque as a cultural formation in Spain and Spanish America, as well as the intersections of ideology, literature, film, and politics in twentieth-century Latin America. Beverley teaches courses on modern Latin American film at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

During his extensive career at the University of Pittsburgh, Beverley served as Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, University of California–San Diego, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, University of Minnesota, and University of Washington. He has authored or edited approximately 18 books and over 100 articles. Notable publications include The Failure of Latin America: Postcolonialism in Bad Times (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), Latinamericanism after 9/11 (Duke University Press, 2011), Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory (Duke University Press, 1999), Against Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), Una modernidad obsoleta: estudios sobre el barroco (1998), From Cuba (editor, 2002), and La voz del otro: Testimonio, subalternidad y verdad narrativa (editor, new edition, 2002). Beverley co-edits the University of Pittsburgh Press series Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas with Sara Castro-Klarén and has served on editorial boards such as University of Pittsburgh Press, boundary 2, PMLA (1994-1998), Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Estudios. His scholarship has profoundly shaped the fields of Latin American literature and cultural studies.

Professional Email: brq@pitt.edu