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John Patrick Leary

John Patrick Leary teaches in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is the author of the forthcoming book "A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the U.S. Imagination" and the blog Keywords for the Age of Austerity, a primer for the vocabulary of inequality (theageofausterity.wordpress.com). Follow him on Twitter at @johnpatleary.