Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Languages and Literature with a concentration in Latin American Literature from the University of Washington.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Languages and Literature with a concentration in Latin American Literature from the University of Washington.
He has written on Latin American studies and literary theory and is the editor of A Contracorriente, an online academic journal dedicated to approaching social history and Latin American literature from a left-wing perspective, and managing editor of Editorial A Contracorriente, the Journal"s publishing spin-official Dawes received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Spanish from the University of Northern Iowa. Critical Approaches to Literature and Culture Literature and Culture of Latin America III X.
Dawes is a Marxist who believes in democratic socialism. His classes are on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture and literary theory. He teaches courses on the culture of Chile during the Popular Unity government in Chile, the 60s in Latin America, the Latin American avant-garde, and on Latin American poetry.
He has published articles and books on Latin American poetry, particularly on Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Ernesto Cardenal, Mario Benedetti, among others
