Gustavo Remedi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.  He received a B.S. in Architectural Studies and an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.  In 1993, he obtained his doctorate degree in Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, with a secondary concentration in Comparative Study of Discourses and Society. He came to Trinity College in 1994. Since 2000, he has held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Culture Studies (Hispanic Studies section). He also participates in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, International Studies.  He is the author of Murgas: El teatro de los tablados (Montevideo: Trilce, 1996), later translated and published as Carnival Theatre: Uruguay's Popular Performers and National Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).  He is the author of the Spanish translation of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large, titled La modernidad desbordada. Dimensiones culturales de la globalización (Fondo de Cultura Económica/Trilce, 2001).  With historian Daniela Bouret, he co-authored Escenas de la vida cotidiana (1910-1930). El nacimiento de la sociedad de masas, Vol. 2 of a five volume collection published by Ediciones de la Banda Oriental (2009). In addition, he has published articles in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, the United States and the United Kingdom on popular culture, popular theater, national mediation of global culture, carnival and community radio stations as forms of public sphere building, urban life and the city as cultural discourses, and the relation between aesthetics and citizenship. He is currently writing on the discourse of property, editing a collection on the way theatre represents recent history, and researching theatrical experiences taking place outside the theatrical establishment and as forms of social and political action.