
- jdblanco@ucsd.edu
- (858) 534-3639
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Arts & Humanities Bldg (RWAC)
Room 392
Mail Code: 0410
Professor
John D. (Jody) Blanco researches and teaches the colonial and post-colonial literatures and cultures of the Philippines, Latin America, and the Pacific, with a focus on the early modern (16th-18th c.) periods. He has taught at UCSD as a member of the Literature faculty since 2001. He is the author of Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the 19th Century Philippines (UC Press, 2009); and Counter-Hispanization in the Colonial Philippines: Literature, Law, Religion, and Native Custom (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). He also translated Julio Ramos’s book Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: cultura y política del siglo XIX, which was published as Divergent Modernities of Latin America: Culture and Politics of the Nineteenth Century] by Duke University Press in 1999.
In addition to research and teaching, Professor Blanco has served as the Director of Latin American Studies at UC San Diego; as well as the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Division of Arts and Humanities (2016-18). He currently serves on the Advisory editorial boards of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, the Philippine journal Unitas, and Perspectives in the Arts & Humanities Asia. He also serves on the collective board of the Tepoztlán Institute, which hosts an annual conference in Tepoztlán, México.
Pronouns: He, him, his
Languages: Filipino (Tagalog), Spanish, English
https://jdblanco.wordpress.com/