George Yúdice is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, and Latin American and Studies, at the University of Miami. His research interests include new aesthetic phenomena in the digital age; globalization and transnational processes; the role of intellectuals, artists and activists in national and transnational institutions; contemporary Central America; and cultural policy. In connection with the latter, he has formed the Miami Observatory on Communication and Creative Industries, which brings together researchers from UM and FIU. He is the author of Vicente Huidobro y la motivación del lenguaje poético (Buenos Aires, 1977); Cultural Policy, co-authored with Toby Miller (Sage Publications, 2002); in Spanish Política Cultural (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2004); El recurso de la cultura (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2003), in English The Expediency of Culture (Duke UP, 2004) and Portuguese A Conveniência da Cultura (Belo Horizonte: Editora da UFMG); Nuevas tecnologías, música y experiencia (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2007), and Culturas emergentes en el mundo hispano de Estados Unidos (Madrid: Fundación Alternativas, 2009). He has in progress Culture and Value: Essays on Latin American Literarature and Culture; and Cultura y política cultural en América Central: 1990 a 2007 (for Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica). He is also co-editor (with Jean Franco and Juan Flores) of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture (1992).

He has written widely on literature, art, and culture in Latin America and the US. For the past decade he has been conducting research on cultural policy: systems of support for art, media, and popular culture in the US, Latin American countries, Europe, and in international institutions. He has been an editor of the journal Social Text and an advisory editor of Cultural Studies (US) and Found Object (US); he is currently an editorial board member of International Journal of Cultural Policy (UK) and  Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society (Dubai); Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Z Revista Cultural del Programa Avançado de Cultura Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro).