Professor William Rowe

BA (Cambridge), PhD (London)
Anniversary Professor of Poetics and Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre

020 7631 6143
w.rowe@bbk.ac.uk

William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics in the Department of Spanish and the Department of English and Humanities. 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 will be published by Oxford University Press early 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. He would welcome inquiries by students interested in doing research in twentieth-century American or British poetry.

The following papers are available from this website.  They are all in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.