Brian Whitener
PhD
Scholarly Interests
Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies; Poetics; Indigenous Studies; Trans and Gender Studies
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan
Publications
Dr. Whitener is the author of Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), and editor and translator of numerous other volumes. In addition, he has published two books of experimental poetry, Face Down (2016) and The 90s (2022), and for many years he was a member of La Lleca, an artistic collective based in Mexico City. His most recent projects include the edited volume In Defense of Common Life: The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar (Common Notions, 2024) and a translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Revolutions of Capitalism: The Politics of the Event (Duke UP, 2026). He is also co-director of the Communal Hypothesis Research Group.
Courses Taught
University at Buffalo
- SPA 208 Spanish Composition and Language Workshop
- SPA 534 ST Abolition in the Americas