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Jody Blanco
Jody Blanco teaches the literatures and cultures of early modern globalization under the Spanish Empire (Philippine, Latin American, and Asian) and modern Philippine, Latin America...view moreJody Blanco teaches the literatures and cultures of early modern globalization under the Spanish Empire (Philippine, Latin American, and Asian) and modern Philippine, Latin American, and Asian American literatures at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines (University of California Press, 2009; University of the Philippines Press 2010). His current book manuscript explores the counter -Hispanizing thrust of the mission as frontier(izing) institution and the literature of “spiritual conquest” in the Philippines between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. His articles have appeared in the Radical History Review, Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto), and Amerasia Journal, as well as various book anthologies. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies and Unitas. He is also the director of the Latin American Studies program at the University of California, San Diego.view less