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Alumni Profile: Juan Pablo Dabove
What degrees and certificates do you hold?
BA, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)
MA, Hispanic Language & Literature, Pitt, 1999 (with High Honors)
PhD, Hispanic Language & Literature, Pitt, 2002
What is your current job title and nature of your employment?
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in my field of specialization, 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature and culture. As Associate Chair, I am in charge of the undergraduate program, which has 500 majors.
What part of the country/world do you live?
Boulder, Colorado
Are you currently working on any projects or conducting any research?
A forthcoming book--Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929--will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in its Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas series in June 2007. 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.
I am currently working on the second stage of the project on the cultural depiction of banditry. In this stage, I analyze the use of the bandit trope in 20th-century cultural discourse (novel, short story, criminological essay, populist discourse, comic, and film).
Why did you decide to attend the University of Pittsburgh for your graduate work?
Prestige of the program, library, and the Center for Latin American Studies. It was the best decision I made in my life. I am deeply grateful to the University and the city of Pittsburgh for all it gave me (including my wife, whom I met in a class). As my publications show, I am still in touch with Pittsburgh in various ways.
