John Beverley is a professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught since 1969. He was for many years a co-coordinator of the Marxist Literary Group, and more recently of the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. He co-edits with Sara Castro Klaren abook series for the University of Pittsburgh Press, Illuminations: Cultural Deformations of the Americas. He has published the edited volumes La voz del otro, From Cuba and The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America and published the following books: Aspects of Gongiora's Soledades, Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo, (with Marc Zimmerman) Literature and Politics in the Central American revolutions, Against Literature, Una modernidad obsoleta: estudios sobre el barroco, Subalternity and Representation, and with the University Minnesota Press, Testimonio: On the Politics of Truth, a compilation of his essays on testimonio.
