Paul Bové

Paul A. Bové was a member of the editorial collective of boundary 2 (Duke University Press).

Paul's book publications can be accessed at his Author Page. He also blogs at Critical Reflections and you can follow him on Twitter (X), @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.

Paul taught several undergraduate courses in the Honors College, including: American Literature, the Black Rhetorical and Imaginative Traditions. His Graduate Seminars included: Theory of Literature, Service and Other Duties, and he served on the Graduate Procedures Committee.

His research interestes included critical theory, globalization, modernism, critical humanism, humanities oversight of technology, and post-academic literary work.