John BLANCO - Ph.D. (UC Berkeley) Primary Office: LIT 434 Primary Phone: (858) 534-3639 (ANS MACHINE) Email: jdblanco@ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature: Filipino Literature; Nineteenth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Anti-Colonial Thought. Selected Publications: "Within, Without You: Filipino Modernity, Indigenization, and the Americans," American Studies Asia 2 [forthcoming] " Apolinario Mabini and the Inner Revolution," American Studies Asia 2 [forthcoming] “ 1896-1996: Patterns of Reform, Repetition, and Return in the First Centennial of the Filipino Revolution” in Positively No Filipinos Allowed, eds. Antonio Tiongson, et al. Philadelphia: Temple University Press [forthcoming 2005] " Baroque Modernity and the Colonial World: Aesthetics and Catastrophe in Nick Joaquin's Portrait of the Artist as a Filipino," Kritika Kultura: An electronic journal of literary / cultural and language studies, no. 4 (March 2004) [http://www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura [http://www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura] “ Transformations of the Blood Compact: International Law and the State of Exception in the 1896 Filipino Revolution and the U.S. Takeover of the Philippines,” Postcolonial Studies 7.1 (Spring 2004) " Bastards of the Unfinished Revolution: Bolívar's Ismael and Rizal's Martí at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century," Radical History Review 89 (Spring 2004) Translation with translator's foreword, Julio Ramos, Divergent Modernities in Latin America: Culture and Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. "Economium Admirabile: Return and Redemption in José Rizal's Noli me tangere and the Rizal-Pastells Correspondence," Likhaan Anthology of Contemporary Theory and Criticism in Filipino Literature, ed. Neil Garcia. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2000. "Shibboleths of Rizal in the Aftermath of 1898," Lucero (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies), 10 (Spring 1999). "Cross the Line: Goya and Kant Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Budhi, 2.1 (Spring 1998). "From the Letter of the Law to the Law of the Letter: Translating Sovereignty in José Francisco Lozano's Letras y figuras and the Pasyon Texts of the Colonial Period," Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature, 1.2 (January 1998) Editorial Board: American Studies ­ Asia.