Name: John D. Blanco
Assistant Professor, Literature
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Field of Expertise: Blanco is an expert on Filipino Literature, 19th century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and Anti-Colonial Thought.

Region of Interest: Latin America, the Philippines and the Caribbean

Media Interview Topics: John Blanco can provide commentary on Filipino Literature.

Selected Publications:
"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]

“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)