About

Jeremy De Chavez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Macau. While his research and teaching areas are primarily in Postcolonial Studies, Global Anglophone Literature, and Critical/Cultural Theory, he is committed to being a strategic generalist with wide-ranging interests across literary periods, genres, and cultural forms.

 

Education

Jeremy received his PhD in English Literature from Queen’s University, Canada under the supervision of Asha Varadharajan.

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Book

    De Chavez, J. Positive Affects and Postcolonial Critique (under contract with Routledge, expected 2021)

    Articles and Book Chapters

    De Chavez, J. & Varadharajan, A. (2020) “Aesthetic Theory”. Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Cultural Theory. Oxford University Press (under contract)

    De Chavez, J. & Lin, C. (2020) “the faithful work of drowning.”: A Reparative Reading of Ocean Vuong’s “Telemachus”. The Explicator. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2020.1732280

    Montefrio, M., De Chavez, J. Contreras, A. & Erasga, D. (2020) “Hybridities and Awkward Constructions in Philippine Locavorism: Reframing Global-Local Dynamics Through Assemblage Thinking” Food, Culture, & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1713428

    De Chavez, J. (2019) “Marlow’s “delicious sensations”: On the Persistence of Affect in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness“. ANQ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2019.1696177

    De Chavez, J. & Varadharajan, A. (2019) “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me: Rethinking the Humanities (in times of) Crisis”. Critical Arts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2019.1665693

    De Chavez, J. (2019). “Love in the Visual Field: Cinephiliac Moment, Truth-Event, Movement of Thought” JMMLA, Vol. 51, No. 1. DOI: 10.1353/mml.2018.0009

    De Chavez, J. (2018). “The Political Subject is a Lover not a Fighter, or Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club as a Love Story” ANQ: Articles and Notes Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2017.1369863

    Velasco, J. & De Chavez, J. (2018). “Millennial Work Ethic: A Preliminary Examination of the Work Ethic Profile of Filipino University Students”. MJSS, Vol. 9, No. 6.

    Bayot, J., Bowlby, R. & De Chavez, J. (2018). “Interview”. Talking Walking: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.

    De Chavez, J. (2017). “It’s More Fun in the Philippines: Positive Affects and the Post-Colonial Condition” Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, Vol. 24. No. 2.

    De Chavez, J. (2017). “The Traditional and the Modern in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters” The Explicator, Vol. 75, No. 2.

    De Chavez, J. (2017).“On Love and Thought’s Intimate Connivance” Eidos, Vol. 26, No.1.

    De Chavez, J. (2017). “The Breakdown of White Masculinity in the Period of Colonial Decline in Anthony Burgess’s Time for a TigerThe Explicator, Vol. 75, No. 1.

    De Chavez, J. & Selman, X. (2016). “Religion as False Resolution: Exploring the Religious Ideologeme in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe” ANQ, Vol. 29, No. 4.

    De Chavez, J. (2016). “‘Love is….’: An Inaesthetic Inquiry on Love and Attention in Aureus Solito’s The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros.” Kritika Kultura, Vol. 27.

    De Chavez, J. (2015). “It is only watching, waiting, attention”: Rethinking Love with Alain Badiou and Simone Weil”. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, Vol. 22, No. 2.

    De Chavez, J. (2015). “Rereading Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving, or Why Loving Means Giving Nothing” Kritike, Vol.  9, No. 2.

    Projects

    Currently, Jeremy is working on a monograph entitled Positive Affects and Postcolonial Critique (under contract with Routledge, expected 2021) and on compiling and annotating a research guide on Aesthetic Theory (with co-author Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University), which is part of the series Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory (under contract with Oxford University Press, expected 2020).

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