John R. Beverley II is a literary and cultural critic who works at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

. He is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies as well as an adjunct professor in the English and communication departments. He was influential in co-founding the Latin American subaltern studies

Latin American subaltern studies

-History:Latin American subaltern studies was a group founded in 1992 by John Beverley and Ileana Rodríguez. Inspired by the South Asian Subaltern Studies group, its aim was to apply a similar perspective to Latin American studies...

 group as well as a founding member of the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his publications are Against Literature.

PhD, University of California at San Diego.

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

List of works

• (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)
• "Aspects of Gongora's 'Soledades'" (1980)
• "Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo" (1987)
• "Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions" (1990)