People
Patrick E. Dove | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Ballantine Hall 874
TEL: 855-6136
Email: pdove
Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000
M.A., Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton, 1996
B.A., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1992
Specializations
- 20th Century Spanish American Narrative
- Cultural Studies
- Continental Philosophy
- Post-Marxism
- Psychoanalysis
- literary theory
Selected Publications
- The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature. Bucknell University Press, 2004
- “The Night of the Senses: Literary (Dis)orders in Nocturno de Chile.” Forthcoming, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2009.
- “Post-politics, Technics, Aesthetics: Literature and Mass Media in Contemporary Argentina.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos XLIII:1, 2009: 3-30.
- “Memory, Ethics and Politics in Post-dictatorship Argentina: La carta de Del Barco.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 17:3 (December 2008): 279-98.
- “Metaphor and Image in Borges’ ‘El Zahir’.” Romanic Review 98:2 (March-May 2007): 169-87.
- “Living Labour, History, and the Signifier: Bare Life and Sovereignty in Diamela Eltit’s Mano de obra.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 15:1 (March 2006): 77-91.
- “Narrativas de justicia y duelo: testimonio y literatura del terrorismo de Estado en el Cono Sur.” In Escrituras, imágenes, escenarios ante la represión, eds. Ana Longoni and Elizabeth Jelin. Siglo Veintiuno de España Editores, 2005.
- “Eco, Latin America, and the West.” CR: The New Centennial Review, 5:2 (2005): 171-88.
- “Tonalities of Transition in the Southern Cone: The World of the End of the World, or Marcelo Cohen's El oído absoluto.” CR: The New Centennial Review, 4:2 (Fall 2004): 239-67.
Teaching
Graduate Courses (Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, CLACS)
- History of Theory and Criticism: Aesthetics, Technics and Nihilism
- “Latin America”: The Politics and Poetics of Naming
- Seminar in Hispanic Studies: Dictatorship, Terror and Memory
- Contemporary Spanish American Literature II: The Cultural Politics of the Boom
Undergraduate Courses
- The Politics of Memory in Latin American Culture
- Women in Hispanic Literature
- Argentine Literature
Honors and Awards
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University (2007)
- New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Exploration Travel Fellowship (2007)
- Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars, Dean of Faculties (co-recipient) (2007)
- Conference and Workshop Grant, College Arts and Humanities Institute (co-recipient) (2007)
- Nominated for 2007 NEH Summer Stipend (One of two selected by Indiana University)(2006)
- Faculty Fellow, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions (2006-07)
- Exploration Travel Fellowship, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities (2006)
- Summer Faculty Fellowship (2005)
- College of Arts and Humanities Institute Workshop Grant (2004)
- Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California (2001)
- Social Science Research Council Program on Collective Memory of Repression (2000)
Current Research Projects
- “The Crisis of Representation: Literary Aesthetics and Politics in the Southern Cone”: An examination of literary aesthetics in Latin America based on two hypotheses. The first is that the historical constitution of the aesthetic as a category has always been informed by necessities external to the world of art (epistemological, political, economic, and so on), even though the aesthetic has often been defined as an autonomous realm. The second hypothesis is that the aesthetic ideology which sustained the concept of “literature” since the 19th century no longer plays a foundational role in the production of social subjects. I look at a number of writers (Aira, Benedetti, Bolaño, Borges, Chejfec, Cohen, Eltit, and Mercado) for whom the literary marks a limit for prevailing regimes of signification while also opening to the possibility of alternative historical temporalities.
- “The Politics of Memory in Post-dictatorship Southern Cone”: This project considers the way in which “memory” becomes a political signifier in post-dictatorship Southern Cone societies that can be appropriated by a number of different aims or discourses (human rights, new forms of militancy, as well as neoliberal reformers). At the same time, I also propose that the increasing interest in the past in the decades after dictatorship needs to be understood in light of present-day conflicts and anxieties—in particular, in view of transformations in the way we experience “time” and “history” at the end of the millennium. If late modernity is synonymous with the speeding up of time and the end of history understood as archive of alternative futures, then memory politics can be understood either as an attempt to revitalize our sense of historicity or as aesthetic compensation for—and hence deepening of—our inability to live historically.
