This course explores how art and culture represent migration and borders throughout the Americas. In recent years, migration dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean have evolved significantly, presenting challenges for governments and host communities. From South-to-North migration flows to cross-border journeys, economic, social, and political imbalances in Latin American countries have fueled mass migration across the hemisphere. Scholars worldwide, including Gloria Anzaldúa, Glenda R. Carpio, Rossi Braidotti, and Søren Frank, argue that we need a new paradigm to reveal the historical...

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. The queer Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa describes the U.S.-Mexico border as an open wound: "una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds" (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 25). This dynamic creates a "third space" or "third country" where both worlds merge, resulting in a unique 'border culture' that challenges political, artistic, racial, gender, and sexual norms. ...

This course considers Spain’s literary and visual representations of womanhood and femininity from the 18th C to the present.   Prerequisite: SPAN 228 or consent of instructor.T/TH 12:30-1:50 pm; 316S Mumford Hall CRN 55518 (Section B) Instructor: Anna Torres-Cacoullos

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. It will examine non-fictional texts (e.g. essays,  newspaper articles, travel writing)—alongside a range of cultural production including literature (short stories, graphic novels), visual culture (painting, photography), and film.  Prerequisite: SPAN 228 or consent of instructor.T/TH 2:00-3:...