Paul Bové
- Distinguished Professor
Affiliations: boundary 2, University Honors College, European Studies Center
Paul A. Bové is a member of the editorial collective of boundary 2 (Duke University Press).
Research and Publications
For easy access to his book publications go to Paul Bové's Author Page. He also blogs at Critical Reflections and you can follow him on Twitter, @BovePaul. He is the author of dozens of articles in refereed journals, and he has lectured in many leading US and foreign universities as well as most major national and international conferences in the literary fields. He was elected a member of the International Association of University Professors of English in 2010.
His most recent book is Love’s Shadow, published by Harvard University Press in 2021 (ISBN: 978-0674977150). Publisher’s Weekly chose it as a Best Book, “a critical tour de force.”
He is completing a book on Henry Adams and America and beginning work on two new books, one on the art of portraiture, especially self-portraits, and a second on American forms of tyranny, a study of US literatures and US intellectual life.
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses:
- Honors College, American Literature, the Black Rhetorical and Imaginative Traditions
Graduate Seminar:
- Theory of Literature
Service and Other Duties
Served on the Graduate Procedures Committee.
Research Interest Summary
Research Interests
Critical humanism, humanities oversight of technology, post-academic literary work