Enrique Yepes

Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Director of Latin American Studies

Phone (207) 725-3870
Title Associate Professor
Department ROMANCE LANGUAGES
2nd Title Program Director
2nd Department LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Work Location Edward Pols House
E-Mail eyepes@bowdoin.edu
Enrique Yepes

Education:

Licenciatura [B.A. equivalent] (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana)
Ph.D. (Rutgers)

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Enrique Yepes was born in Colombia, where he graduated as a Licenciado (B.A. equivalent) in Modern Languages from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Medellín. He earned his Ph.D. in Spanish-American Literature from Rutgers University (New Jersey), and came to Bowdoin in 1996, where he has taught courses on Latin American cultures and literatures. In 1999, he was awarded oficios del gocethe Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for excellence in teaching. He has published articles on contemporary Spanish-American short-short story, Ecuadorian and Colombian literature, and classroom semiotics.
His book Oficios del goce: Poesía y debate cultural en Hispanoamérica (1960-2000) [Practices of Pleasure: Poetry and Cultural Debate in Spanish America], published by Fondo Editorial Universidad Eafit (Medellín 2000), studies Hispanic poetry from the Caribbean, Central and South America and the U.S. written during the last four decades of the 20th century, in the frame of contemporary cultural debate and social transformation.
He is currently studying contemporary Latin American poetry in its interaction with social activism.

Teaching Interests

Latin American Cultures
Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Hispanic Literature
Latin American Short Story
Modern Poetry in the Americas
Colombian Society
Caribbean Studies

Research Interests

Contemporary Latin American Poetry
Latin American Short Fiction
Cultural and Film Studies