Marc Zimmerman is Professor Emeritus of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC) as well as World Cultures and Literatures at the University of Houston, where he served as chair (2002-2008); he was also active in Midwest Latino migrant and community organizations for over three decades and he has been director of Global CASA/LACASA Books ((Latin American and Latino/a Cultural Studies and Activities Arena) since 1998.

Over the years he taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua, McGill University, the University of Michigan, and the Universidad de Puerto Rico; he has also mini-seminars in la Universidad de los Andes, Tucuman, Argentina and la Universidad de Madrid. He has served on the jury of Casa de las Americas; and has won Fulbright and other major awards.  Many of his articles have appeared in major journals; and he has written and edited several books on general cultural theory as well as on Latin American, Central American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Cultural Studies.

His books include Lucien Goldmann: El estructuralismo genético y la creación cultural (1985); Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions (with John Beverley-1990); U.S. Latino Literature (1992); Literature and Resistance in Guatemala (1995); and the eight-volumeseries, Pre-post and Post-Positions (2005-2008).  Among his many co-edited volumes are The Central American Quartet (1980-1998), Processes of Caribbean Unity(1982); and several collective volumes exploring Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies in the age of Globalization published under the aegis of LACASA—including Ir y venir: procesos  transnacionales entre América Latina y el norte (2007), Orbis/Urbis Latino: Los “Hispanos” en las ciudades de los Estados Unidos (2008), Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio (2009) y Los giros culturales en la marea rosa de América Latina (2012).  He is currently developing a LACASA series on Testimonos, crónicas y documentos, as well as a series on Latino Studies with the U. of Illinois Press and LACASA, starting with Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago (2010) and Defending their own in the Cold:  The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans (2011).  Zimmerman has also published a collection of short stories, Stores of Winter (2005) and is working on additional collections of fictionalized memoirs, including ones on border themes, Chicago Latino life, and Latin American encounters.