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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.
Spanish Migrations in Literature and Culture
This course will examine how both emigration and immigration have been portrayed in the Spanish literature and in others cultural manifestations since 1900 to the present.
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.
Spanish & Entrepreneurship: Languages, Cultures & Communities
Learn the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship and identify opportunities for positive change.
Africa in Colonial Latin America: Bodies, Experiences, and Colonial Negotiations
This course examines the dynamics of identity construction by and about black subjects in colonial Spanish America and its intrinsic relations to issues of race, gender, sexuality, spatiality, food and ecology.
Las Otras Españas: Counter-hegemonic discourses in contemporary Spanish literature
This course serves as a panoramic introduction to Spanish literatures and cultures from the perspective of non-hegemonic discourses and subjects.
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.
Spanish in the United States
In this course, we will explore the past, present, and future of the many different Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S. The main objective is to develop critical and linguistic awareness of the relationship between language, individual, and society.
Greater Mexico and Migration on Screen
This course explores how cinema produced in the U.S. and Mexico, from the silent period to the contemporary moment has mediated and commented on the presence of Mexicans in what is today the U.S., as well at the migratory experience.
Race and Nation in Latin American Cinema
This course explores the role of cinema in constructing and mediating ideas about race throughout Latin America in the context of the region's national formations from the early 20th century through the 21st.
All About Almodóvar: Melodrama, Mothers, Memory and Movidas in the Films of the (Most) Fabulous Spanish Auteur
Who is Pedro Almodóvar and why are his films synonymous with “Spanish” culture? How do his films narrate contemporary Spanish history, disrupt gender norms, challenge traditional Catholic values, irk politicians in both the Left and Right, uphold and deconstruct Hollywood film style, and generally reframe the way Spanish cinema is perceived globally?
Beginner Basque
This course provides students with basic communication skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Basque and introduces students to Basque culture and history. This course counts towards the Spanish major and minor. T/TH 3:30-4:50 pm; 3072E Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building Instructor: Maialen Casquete de la Puente
From the Slave Ship to the Cruise Ship: Violence & Resistance in the Hispanic Caribbean
This course explores how authors and creators at the edge of empire defy and resist neocolonial gestures and interventions. Students will examine an array of literary and cultural productions from the 19th century to the present, with a special focus on contemporary visual cultures.
Introduction to Latin American Cinema
This introductory, graduate-level course on Latin American cinema familiarizes students with the three fundamental areas of expertise that shape scholarship in the field: 1) the techniques of filmic analysis; 2) film theory; and 3) the history of film production in the region from the silent period through contemporary cinema.
Beginner/Intermediate Basque
Continuation of BASQ401, with an exhaustive initial overview. Basque is an isolate language spoken in the Basque Country of northern Spain, southern France and the Basque diaspora in Western US and elsewhere. It is unrelated to any modern language. The course may be adapted depending on enrolled students’ needs & interests.
Beyond Bracero, Narcos and Latin Lovers: Latin American and Latinx Film
TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, Gen Ed for “Literature and the Arts” and “US Minority Cultures;" This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through exciting films. It focuses on a set of current and relevant topics (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism).
"Tan Cerca de los Estados Unidos": U.S. Interventions in Latin America Through Literature & Visual Culture
This course addresses the conflictive relationship between the United States and Latin America through literature and visual culture. In 1891, Cuban writer José Martí published his essay Nuestra América, referring to Latin America as opposed to the United States and Canada.
Mapping the Borderlands: Border Culture & Migration in the U.S. & the Americas
Span 326 Mapping the Borderlands focuses on how border communities imagine, experience, and coexist in el Norte, the American Southwest, and Greater Mexico. For the queer Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa, the U.S.-Mexico border is an open wound: "una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds" (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 25).