E. San Juan, Jr. is probably the first major Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual with an international reputation in the postmodern era. His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism. His books and controversial articles have been widely quoted, referenced, and discussed globally in contemporary forums and exchanges in metropolitan centers.

San Juan contributed the entry for "Ethnicity" in volume 2 of Historisch-Kritisches Worterbuch des Marxismus edited by Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Berlin and Hamburg: Argument, 1997). His essays, translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, and other languages, have been published in Das Argument, Marxismo Oggi, Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (Taiwan), L'Homme et la Societe, Weg und Ziel, Contemporary Monthly(Taiwan), and other venues. His pathbreaking essay, "Surrealism and Revolution," was translated into French and published by Professor Henri Behar of the Sorbonne in the online Web <http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/Rech_sur> His poems in Filipino have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Italian, German, and other languages.

He edited the first collection of Georg Lukacs' essays in English translation, MARXISM AND HUMAN LIBERATION (New York, 1972), which contributed significantly to the renaissance of Marxist thought in North America during the height of the civil rights struggles and the anti-war movement. Georg Lukács (April 13, 1885 - June 4, 1971) was a Hegelian and Marxist philosopher and literary critic. ...

San Juan was born in Manila, Philippines, on 29 December 1938. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, and his A.M. and Ph. D. from Harvard University. He has taught in various universities in the United States, among them University of California (Davis); University of Connecticut, Storrs; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York; and Bowling Green State University. He served as chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman, from 1998 to 2001. He was visiting professor at the University of Trento, Italy, and at Tamkang University, Taiwan. He assumed directorship of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut on 2001. For other meanings of the word, see Manila (disambiguation). ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... The seal of the University of the Philippines The University of the Philippines (Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas) or U.P. is the state university of the Philippines. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is an accredited private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut, commonly known as UConn, is the State of Connecticuts land-grant university. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym pronounced kyoo-nee), is the public university system of New York City. ... Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public four-year institution located in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA; about 20 miles south of Toledo, Ohio on I-75. ... For the state of Washington in the United States, please see Washington. ... The University of Trento is a university located in Trento, Italy. ... Tamkang University, Tamshui Campus Lights, Tamshui Campus, June 2006 Tamkang University (Traditional Chinese:淡江大學) is a private Taiwanese university located in Danshuei township, Taipei County. ...

From 2001 to the present, San Juan has lectured abroad as Fulbright professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, lecturer at the Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium; visiting professor of literature at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan; and resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy. He has won numerous awards, among them the MELUS Best Essay Award, Gustavus Myers Center Award, and Centennial Award for Literature, Cultural Center of the Philippines. The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven in English - also the translated name of its French-speaking sister university) or K.U. Leuven is a Flemish university, located in the town of Leuven in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) region of Belgium. ... Bellagio is a resort town on the Italy. ...

Among his most recent books are: BEYOND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY (Palgrave), RACISM AND CULTURAL STUDIES (Duke University Press), and WORKING THROUGH THE CONTRADICTIONS (Bucknell U Press). His recent books of poems and essays in Filipino are: ALAY SA PAGLIKHA NG BUKANG-LIWAYWAY (Ateneo U Press); HIMAGSIK (De La Salle U Press); and SAPAGKAT INIIBIG KITA (U of the Philippines Press).

Forthcoming works are a revised edition of RIZAL: A RE-INTERPRETATION; two collections of essays, BALIKBAYANG SINTA (Ateneo U Press), and FROM GLOBALIZATION TO NATIONAL LIBERATION (U of the Philippines Press); and a new collection of poems, SALUD ALGABRE AT IBA PANG TULA.

Two significant contributions of San Juan to Philippine culture and literature are his translation into English of selected poems by Amado Hernández; and the re-discovery of Carlos Bulosan's writings, evidenced in his numerous anthologies of Bulosan's works; and his critical essays on Hernandez in THE RADICAL TRADITION IN PHILIPPINE LITERATURE, TOWARD A PEOPLE'S LITERATURE, WRITING AND NATIONAL LIBERATION, THE PHILIPPINE TEMPTATION, AFTER POSTCOLONIALISM, HEGEMONY AND STRATEGIES OF TRANSGRESSION, and ONLY BY STRUGGLE. He is also distinguished for applying a Gramscian approach and a critical marxist optic on cultural events and texts in the Philippine historical process of national liberation. Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pampanga, Philippines on November 24, 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956) was a Filipino American novelist and poet, best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart. ...

San Juan is also notable for being the first Filipino male intellectual of global stature to have engaged with feminist discourse in his FILIPINA INSURGENCY: WRITING AGAINST PATRIARCHY IN THE PHILIPPINES (Giraffe Books, 1999). See WEB pages: <http://sonnysj.blogspot.com> <http://rizalarchive.blogspot.com>