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Assistant Professor Juan
Pablo Dabove specializes in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Latin
American Literature and Culture. He teaches courses in this area both at
the undergraduate and graduate levels.
His research focuses on the depiction of the diverse
forms of rural insurgency labeled "banditry" in postcolonial
Latin American writing. On this topic, Professor Dabove has
published articles in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana,
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana,
Latin American Literary Review, Variaciones
Borges, Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y
Culturales, as well as in several critical collections.
He is the author of Nightmares
of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929
published in 2007 by the University of Pittsburgh Press in its series
“Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas.” The book studies the
uses of the bandit and the bandit gang in narrative, poetry, essay, drama
and political discourse as cultural metaphors for the struggles and
paradoxes of the collective imaginings of the nation-state during the
protracted period of nation-state formation ranging from the wars of
independence to the 1920s. He is currently working on the second stage of
this project, which analyzes the use of the bandit trope in twentieth and
twenty-first century culture.
Prof. Dabove is co-editor (with
Carlos Jáuregui) of Heterotropías: narrativas de
identidad y alteridad latinoamericana
(IILI, 2003), and editor of Demons of Nineteenth
Century Hispanic Literatures (special issue of The Colorado Review of Hispanic
Studies, 2007). He
is also editor of the forthcoming critical collection Jorge Luis Borges: políticas
de la literatura (IILI), and co-editor (with
Natalia Brizuela) of Y todo el resto es literatura:
ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini (Interzona Latinoamericana, 2008)
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