About

Juan Poblete, Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: entre públicos lectores y figuras autoriales (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2003), editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), and co-editor of Andrés Bello (with Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, IILI, 2009), Redrawing The Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (with Héctor Fernández-L’ Hoeste, Palgrave, 2009), and Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (with Fernando Blanco, Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2010). Currently at work on three book projects: one on labor and affect in Latin American cinema, and two on forms of mediation between culture and market in Chile and the USA respectively. He is also co-editing two volumes: one (with Juana Suarez) on Humor in Latin American Cinema, and another (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin) on Sports and Nationalism in Latin America.