Spanish and PortugueseSpanish 609-401
Language Teaching/Learning
Prof. McMahon
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This course is required of all Teaching Assistants in French, Italian, and Spanish in the second semester of their first year of teaching. It is designed to provide instructors with the necessary practical support to carry out their teaching responsibilities effectively, and builds on the practicum meetings held during the first semester. The course will also introduce students to various approaches to foreign language teaching as well as to current issues in second language acquisition. Students who have already had a similar course at another institution may be exempted upon consultation with the instructor.
Spanish 640-401
Bodies of Evidence: Case Studies from Premodern Spain and the New World
Prof. Brownlee
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Bodies of evidence, bodies of knowledge, the body politic, bodies-inviolate to mutilated, saintly to criminal-are figured in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic literature in ways that reveal not only cultural paradigms, myths and obsessions, but also some widely divergent realities. Notions of the body and its cultural inscription involve the history of marginal social groups, the history of the senses, of sexuality and of gender. The relationships between bodily and cognitive systems will form the basis for our analyses of such texts and authors as: The Cantar de mio Cid, Libro de buen amor, Teresa de Cartagena, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, María de Zayas, El médico de su honra, La monja alférez, and poetry by Góngora, Quevedo and Sor Juana.
This course will be taught in English.
Spanish 682-401
Topics in Literary Theory: Debates in the Age of Neoliberalism
Prof. de la Campa
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This course will cover the field of contemporary theory through its most productive paradigms of the past few decades, with a special emphasis on the way in which they respond or correspond to neoliberal readjustments to issues such as nation-states, gender formation and migration. The paradigms discussed will include: a) various models of cultural studies and deconstructive work, b) new approaches to literary communities and comparative literature, c) debates around coloniality and subalternity
and d) transatlantic mappings. We will specifically place these paradigms within the scope of Latin American and Hispanic literary and cultural areas. In that pursuit, we will look at three modes of instantiation: theoretical sources as such, specific works of criticism, samples of literary and cultural production.
Spanish 686-301
Poetics and politics of the Spanish crisis
Prof. Moreno-Caballud
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Taking as a point of departure the current economic and political crisis of neoliberalism in Spain we will focus on the ‘cultural’ - subjective, everyday-life, identity-based, and aesthetic - aspects involved in both neoliberalism and its alternatives. We will study poetics of precariousness, participation, interdependence, and “the popular” that have emerged as possible ways of creating lines of flight from the multi-dimensional Spanish crisis. We will pay particular attention to the complex relations of the heritage of aesthetic modernity with these poetics, by looking not only at novels, short stories, and cinema, but also at digital cultures, grassroots activism, and institutional politics.
Spanish 692-301
Baroque New Worlds
Prof. Tellez
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This course will study the changing nature of the literary Baroque from Góngora?s Soledades to Severo Sarduy?s Neo-baroque, with a particular emphasis on the 16th and 17th century literature written in the Americas. We will reflect on the Baroque in both its cultural and morphological connotations ? a style in art characterized by strained, curving forms. In this sense, we will take up the concept of ?orientation? as a way of putting queer studies in dialogue with the transformations of Baroque literature. The course will pair theoretical readings such as Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Sara Ahmed, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Fernado R. de la Flor, and Alfonso Reyes with a wide selection of literary writings, from poetry and narrative to theater and literary criticism.