Paul A. Bové was born in Philadelphia in 1949. He is distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

 and editor of the journal Boundary 2

Boundary 2

boundary 2 is an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies, theory, libertarian politics and literary criticism. In the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the primary venues for poststructuralist literary theory in the United States. It is edited primarily at the University of Pittsburgh and...

 published by Duke University Press. Bové has been a member of the Pitt faculty since 1979 and was named a distinguished professor in 2005. Bové also holds affiliations with the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Valencia in Spain

Spain

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 and the Centre for International Political Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. From 1994 to 1999 he served on the board of directors of the Institute of Postmodern Studies at Peking University

Peking University

Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...

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Selected Writings

• Poetry Against Torture: Criticism, History, and the Human
• In the Wake of Theory
• Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture
• Intellectuals in Power: A Genealogy of Critical Humanism
• Destructive Poetics: Heidegger and Modern American Poetry

External links

• Bové's homepage from University of Pittsburgh
• Boundary 2 homepage from Duke University Press