"When Was Peru Modern? On Declarations of Modernity in Peru"
WILLIAM ROWE, Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics in the Department of Spanish and the School of English and Humanities of Birkbeck College London. He has published six books and over eighty articles on Latin American literature and culture. Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America was published by Verso in 1991. Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He has worked in anthropology and cultural studies, and is now exploring issues of twentieth-century poetics (interpreted in a broad sense, as including cultural forms), especially in relation to the avant-gardes. He is particularly interested in modern poetry and poetics of both the USA and Latin America. He has also published translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry and his research interests include the theory and practice of literary translation.