Dr John Kraniauskas
BA, MA, PhD
Reader
Head of Department
Contact details
Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
E-mail: j.kraniauskas@bbk.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7631 6123
Profile
Dr John Kraniauskas is head of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies. He is a specialist in Latin American literary and cultural studies, with particular interests in relations between state and cultural forms.
In 1992 and 1995 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, and in 1996 at Duke University.
John has published major articles in Boundary 2, New Formations, Radical Philosophy, Angelaki, Revista de Crítica Cultural, Nuevo Texto Crítico, Boletín, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Nepantla: Views from South, Traces and Sight and Sound.
His edition and translation of Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican Postcards, was given a Special Mention for the LASA 98 Bryce Wood book prize.
He has contributed essays to: the Archivos critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias, El Señor Presidente; Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience, eds. A. Benjamin and P. Osborne; Las culturas de fin de siglo, ed. J. Ludmer; Cannibalism and the Colonial Order, eds. F. Barker, P. Hulme & M. Iverson; Fronteras de la modernidad en América Latina, eds. H. Herlinghaus & M. Moraña; The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, eds A. Rios, A. de Sarto & A. Trigo, Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory ed. P. Osborne, among others. Some of these articles have also been translated and published in the Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.
John is currently preparing three books: on transcultural and subaltern studies; crime form and the state in Mexico (in collaboration with Alberto Moreiras); and Eva Perón and the populist state.
He has given conference papers in the UK, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, China, Korea and Canada.
John is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Travesia), a member of the editorial collective of Traces: A Multi-Lingual Journal of Cultural Theory, and is on the editorial advisory boards of Historia-y-Grafía (Mexico) and Ciberletras (US).
