Federico Pous
Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures
Department: World Languages and Cultures
Email: fpous@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5298
Brief Biography
Federico Pous received his PhD in Spanish from the University of Michigan in 2014 and joined Elon that same year. His teaching and research focus on contemporary Latin American cultural and political dilemmas such as the politics of memory, human rights, and contemporary social movements. His background in sociology, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics allows him to posit questions regarding the historical relationship between culture and politics and its influence on the constitution of subjectivities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.
His book, Eventos carcelarios: Imaginario revolucionario y subjetivación política en América Latina (UNC Press 2022), is the result of a comparative research about the experience of political prisoners during the 1960s and 1970s in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Also, he has co-edited a collective volume, Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay (Palgrave Macmillian 2017), about Paraguayan cultural history and the status of democracy in this country as a reflection of post-dictatorship societies in Latin America.
In his teaching, he cultivates discussion-based dynamics that encourage critical thinking, cultural reflections, and political questions about the functions of the DEI paradigm. Since Fall 2017, he has been the coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor and has organized different cultural events such as workshops, panels, and film series related to human rights and social justice issues.
News & Notes
Education
Ph. D. in Spanish, University of Michigan, 2014.
B.A.: Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005.
Employment History
Associate Professor of Spanish. Department of World Languages and Culture. Elon. August 2020-Present
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of World Languages and Culture, Elon, 2014-2020.
Leadership Positions
Research
Current Projects
Fede is currently finalizing a book-length project about the impact of the political framework of historical memory regarding the dictatorship in the formation of new social movements, such as 15M and feminism, in Argentina and Spain. He focuses on the intergenerational transmission of trauma and political values that have shaped the emergence of a different activist mindset in both countries.
He is also working on a project about the migration of children from Central America and the Caribbean to the US in recent years. Focusing on the narratives produced about (or by) children's accounts of their migrant experience, this study aims to question the transnational responses to this ongoing social issue from the point of view of the intersectionality of race, class, and gender.
Publications
Book
Eventos carcelarios. Imaginario revolucionario y subjetivación política en América Latina. UNC Press, 2022.
Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay. Edited by Federico Pous, Alejandro Quin, and Marcelino Viera. Palgrave Macmillian, 2017.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“La sonrisa de Perón. Setentismo y hospitalidad política en Bombita Rodríguez.” In Intelectuales, democracia y derechas, Edited by Alfredo Falero, Lorena Soler, and Charles Quevedo. Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Colectivo Editorial IEALC: Buenos Aires, 2020. (ISBN 9789874753731).
“Los legados de Antígona. Violencia y política en Ni una menos, Argentina.” In Papeles del crimen: Mujeres y Violencias en la ficción criminal. Edited by Elena Losada, María Lama López and Lola Resano. Universitat de Barcelona Editorial, Barcelona, 2019. (ISBN 978-84-9168-322-3, DL B-18.133).
“Introduction: Exposing Paraguay”. In collaboration with Alejandro Quin and Marcelino Viera. In Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay. Palgrave Macmillan. Octubre 2017: 7-25 (ICEE 302.000).
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“Política de una fuga. Memoria y subjetivación política en la representación cinematográfica del poder desaparecedor en Argentina”. Revista Candiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Spring 2016.
“Partición Paraguay: Descartismo y 7 cajas”. In Sobre Cartismo, Edited by Rocco Carbone and Lorena Soler, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 2015.
“Los intervalos carcelarios. Apuntes sobre la liberación de presas y presos políticos en el Devotazo”. Revista Contemporánea. Dossier edited by Juan Carlos Aguirre. December, 2013, P. 61-78.
“La ironía de la política. Reflexiones sobre “El Gaucho Insufrible” de Roberto Bolaño.” Dissidences 4/5. www.dissidences.org. Fall 2008.