Rethinking Mexico: Cultural Representations of Mexico in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

 This course explores how Mexican literature and culture have been conceived, experienced, and represented during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through lectures and group discussions, we will follow a chronological examination of cultural production in Mexico, covering key periods such as the Revolución Mexicana, Modernidad, Guerra Sucia, and contemporary Mexico. We will reevaluate these cultural moments in light of contemporary topics, including indigenous studies, gender studies, border culture, and transnationalism.The course employs methodologies from literary studies,...

Approaches to Culture

This course focuses on the rich and diverse cultural expressions found throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Our world is filled with diverse and often contradictory cultural messages. In this class, students will examine how culture shapes values, beliefs, habits, and artistic production in Iberian, Latin American, and/or Latinx communities. Focusing on issues relevant to the Spanish-speaking world, students will analyze a range of cultural objects and practices, such as film, visual art, social media, food, music, and literature. Instruction in Spanish. ...

Applied Sociolinguistics

This interdisciplinary graduate seminar explores the connections between linguistic variation, language perception, and applied settings, such as healthcare, law, business, risk communication, and more.  It will be dedicated to using sociolinguistics to make interdisciplinary connections via applied research. Readings will include topics related to linguistic variation and perceptual dialectology, as well as work that applies sociolinguistic concepts to contexts such as healthcare, risk communication, business, education, artificial intelligence, and law. Students should have graduate...

Women Travelers to/from Latin America

When we talk about “adventurers”, “explorers”, or “travelers”, we tend to imagine them embodied in a masculine figure. In this course, we will focus on the limits of this idea of travel, analyzing travel as a gendered and racialized experience. Throughout the semester, we will study different types of mobility, travel, and travel literature created by women from the nineteenth century to the present, debunking stereotypes of female immobility and immanence. From the Peruvian rabonas to the Mexican Revolution’s soldaderas, from pleasure trips to forced exiles, we will read...

Feminisms in the Americas

This course examines questions of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary Latina/Latino culture through a discussion of novels, performance pieces, essays, and films. It explores how gender and sexual identities and practices are shaped by intersecting structures of power—such as race, class, and nation—both within the larger U.S. context and across borders. Taking a hemispheric approach, it emphasizes Latinx and Latin American activisms and their repercussions throughout the continent. We will read and discuss critical and creative work and analyze popular representations of gender...

Urban Modernities in Spanish Literary Culture and Film

With a special focus on the period of 1898-1936, this course will examine the centrality of urban space and the leisure culture and gendered space of city life as it is conceived in Spanish high and low brow literature, including avant-garde works and kiosk commercial literature, in conjunction with its representation in both Spanish silent-era cinema (e.g. El sexto sentido; El misterio de la Puerta del Sol) and international “city symphony” films (e.g. Manhatta, Les nuits électriques). By reading literature with silent film, this course interrogates the...
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