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Unwritten Textualities: Indigenous Literatures and Beyond
This course will introduce students to various forms of Indigenous textualities and the connections between them.
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching
This course explores code-switching as a multifaceted linguistic and cultural practice.
Minor Literatures and Cultures: Catalonia, Basque Country and Galicia
In this course we will analyze some of Basque, Galician, Catalan literature masterpieces by paying attention to issues of linguistic deterritorialization, politicization, visibility, and cultural translation.
Global Spain: Between America, Europe, and the Mediterranean
In this course we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the 20th C to the present.
Pleasure and Fun, In Spite of It All (Spain, 1898-1960)
This class examines how various sorts of pleasure and fun were represented and policed and how pleasure was created through literature, art, and film during an angst-ridden period.
Mapping the Borderlands: Border Culture & Migration in the U.S. & the Americas
This course focuses on how Mexican and Central American communities envision, experience, and coexist in el Norte, the American Southwest, and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Estéticas de la Migración: Migrant Fictions and Border Culture throughout the Americas
This course explores how art and culture represent migration and borders throughout the Americas.
Desired and Policed: Paradigms of Spanish Womanhood
This course considers Spain’s literary representations of womanhood and femininity from the 18th C to the present.
Tourism, Modernization, Environment, & Difference: Imagining Spain & Other in Spanish Cultural Production
This course considers changing notions of travel and its association with processes of modernization, mass consumption, nation building, and climate change in Spain from the 19th C to the present.
Beyond Bracero, Narcos and Latin Lovers: Latin American and Latinx Film
This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through film.
Mexican National Cinema
This course explores how Mexican cinema (19th-21stC) has commented on and participated in major social and national processes such as the Mexican Revolution, the (re)construction of national identity, modernization, as well as the negotiation of changing conceptions of class, gender, and race.
Realisms in Latin American Cinema
This course will study the various forms of filmic realism that have influenced and surfaced within Latin American cinema including Soviet realism, Italian neorealism, cinema verité, among others.
Strange Worlds
This course studies Spain's literature (18th C - present) that portray seemingly otherworldly, fantastic, and speculative experiences.
Against the Grain: A Fantastic Imagination in Spanish Literature and Visual Culture
This course considers the fantastic, grotesque, erotic, and diseased representations of spaces, the natural world, human bodies, cultural beliefs, and the human imagination in Spain's literature and visual culture of the 18th-19th C.
Encuentros y Desencuentros: Latin America and Spain, 1898-2025
What have been the political and cultural relations between Spain and Latin America in recent years? From a transatlantic perspective, we will explore key issues in Hispanic culture today through the study of literature, film, art, and music.
Global Spain: Between America, Europe, and the Mediterranean
In this course, we will explore the construction of the image of Spain for foreign consumption from the turn of the twentieth century to the present.
Religious Conflict in the Making of Spain, 1500-1700
This course analyzes the creation of memory of religious conflicts in the Spanish Empire through literature of entertainment and their interaction with other political and commercial conflicts during the Early Modern period.