Marc Zimmerman

Marc Zimmerman is Professor Emeritus of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) as well as World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, where he served as chair (2002-2008); he was also active in Midwest Latino migrant and community organizations for over three decades and he has been director of Global CASA/LACASA Books ((Latin American and Latino/a Cultural Studies and Activities Arena) since 1998. Over the years he taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua, McGill University, the University of Michigan, and the Universidad de Puerto Rico; he has also mini-seminars in la Universidad de los Andes, Tucuman, Argentina and la Universidad de Madrid. He has served on the jury of Casa de las Americas; and has won Fulbright and other major awards. Many of his articles have appeared in major journals; and he has written and edited several books on general cultural theory as well as on Latin American, Central American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Cultura