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Dr. Greg Dawes

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Biography

I spent the formative years of my childhood in Córdoba, Argentina and have lived in Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, and Chile.  My wife, Marcia, our two daughters, and I return to Chile as often as we can.  I received my B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Northern Iowa (1980, 1982) and my Ph.D from the University of Washington (1990).  I teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on Latin American literature and culture in general and poetry in particular.  I also teach cultural theory at the graduate level. I have been a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill and at the Universidad de Chile.

Interests

Twentieth and Twenty-first century Latin American literature and culture

Latin American Poetry

Cultural Theory

Projects

I am currently finishing a book on Pablo Neruda's poetry and politics from 1956 to 1973.  It is titled La luz prismática y la oscuridad determinante:  Pablo Neruda después de 1956.

Publications

My books include Aesthetics and Revolution:  Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990 (Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1993), Verses Against the Darkness:  Pablo Neruda’s Poetry and Politics (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006), (Editor and contributor) Mario Benedetti, escritor uruguayo contemporáneo: estudios sobre su compromiso literario y político / Mario Benedetti, Contemporary Uruguayan Author: Studies on His Literary and Political Commitments (Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008), and Poetas ante la modernidad: las ideas estéticas y políticas de Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda y Paz (Madrid:  Editorial Fundamentos, 2009).  I have also published articles on Mario Benedetti, Ernesto Cardenal, Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and on cultural theory.  

 

Responsibilities

I am the editor of A Contracorriente (www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente), a refereed journal on Latin American studies, which is published three times a year, and which was founded in 2003.  I am also the General Editor of Editorial A Contracorriente, a press linked to the journal.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from University of Washington, 1990