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Jose Jouve-Martin

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Jose Jouve-Martin
Contact Information
Email address: 
jose.jouve [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

680 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2M7

Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext 00371
Office: 
379
Research areas: 
Hispanic Studies
Biography: 

José Ramón Jouve Martín is Full Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. His interests lie at the intersection of literature, history, and philosophy, including but not limited to the history of colonialism, the history of science, and the history of the book. His research has also focused on Afro-Hispanic intellectual history and the construction of racial discourses in the Hispanic world. He has been the recipient of several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the most recent awarded in 2026, and has been a member of multiple research projects funded by national and international agencies.

Alongside his academic work, he sustains an active literary practice that spans literary essays and historical fiction. His creative writing draws not only on his research on Latin America but also on his broader interest in bringing together the humanities, philosophy, and science. His books include El perro de Newton (Ediciones B), La manzana de Turing (Kairós, with an Italian edition published by Lindau), and La rebelión inevitable (Rosamerón). His novel 400 conejos (Rosamerón) is a historical novel inspired by the 1982 theft of the Tonalamatl de Aubin, a Mexican codex, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Across genres, his creative work returns to the archives, libraries, and collectors that also animate his scholarship, giving both dimensions of his writing a shared preoccupation with how knowledge is made, preserved, and lost.

His teaching includes Hispanic Civilization 1 and 2, a foundational course that introduces students across the University to the history, society, and culture of the Hispanic world and the largest course by enrollment in the Department. Other courses include Literature of Ideas, Major Figures of Hispanic Literature, and Latin American Short Story. He has actively supervised undergraduate Honours theses in Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, and International Development Studies on the most varied facets of the history and culture of Latin America, and he has directed more than ten doctoral dissertations on the literature of the Hispanic world.

Prof. Jouve Martín served as Chair of the interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ from 2010 to 2014, as Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures from 2014 to 2017, and as Acting Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts in 2021. He is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

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