NEW BOOK BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

ABOUT E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
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E. SAN JUAN, Jr. was recently Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Study Center, Bellaggio, Italy; Fulbright Professor of American Studies in Leuven University, Belgium, and visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University and Tamkang University, Taiwan. He served previously as a Fellow of the Center for the Humanities and visiting Professor of English, Wesleyan University; professor and chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University (1998-2001); 1993 Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and visiting professor at the Universita degli di studi Trento, Italy.
He is currently working with Philippine Forum, New York City, and the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut.

San Juan's book Racial Formations/Critical Transformations won awards from the Association for Asian American Studies and the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. He received the 1994 Katherine Newman Award from the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States and the 1999 Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. His collected poems in Filipino written in the last four decades, Alay sa Paglikha ng Bukang-liwayway, was published by Ateneo de Manila University Press; and a new collection of poems, Sapagkat Iniibig Kita, was released this year by the University of the Philippines Press, Quezon City, Philippines.

San Juan received his A.B. magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Brooklyn College (CUNY), University of Connecticut, and Bowling Green State University. He was 1987-88 Fulbright lecturer at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University. He is one of the internationally distinguished writers included in the HarperCollins World Reader. He serves on the editorial board of Amerasia, Cultural Logic, Nature Society and Thought, Left Curve, Atlantic Studies, and many other international journals.

San Juan's recent books include: Beyond Postcolonial Theory (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press); From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States (Westview Press); Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression: Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (State University of New York Press); The Philippine Temptation: Dialectics of U.S.-Philippines Literary Relations (Temple University Press); Mediations: From A Filipino Perspective (Anvil Publishing Co.); Allegories of Resistance (University of the Philippines Press), History and Form (Ateneo de Manila University Press); and Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke University Press). After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-US Confrontations (Rowman and Littlefield) won the 2001 Myers Distinguished Book Award. His collection of essays in philosophy and cultural studies, Working Through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice (Bucknell University Press), was released in 2004. He is completing a new book entitled Benedict de Spinoza Encounters the Abu Sayyaf. His works have been translated into Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, and other languages.

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