Spanish

How does the category of ‘other’ disrupt the boundaries of what we might consider natural, normal, and even real? This course examines the ways in which the category of ‘other’ disrupts the borders and boundaries of what we might consider natural, normal, and even real. Readings will include examples from theater, poetry, and short stories. Prerequisite: Span 228. CRN: 55518, 53119

This course will analyze the multiple uses of humor and laughter in contemporary Spain (20th-21st century). By looking at literary texts, films, TV series, comics, and other cultural expressions, this course will explore how sharing the same sense of humor reflects and promotes a sense of belonging to a community. A special emphasis will be given to how humor is used to both construct and contest the reshaping of different communities and identities depending on factors such as political affinities, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural diversity. Taught in Spanish.

Centralizing “trans” as not only short for “transgender,” “transexual," etc., this course lingers in the possibilities of the “trans” as that which calls us to “move across.” Through art, narrative, film, music, and performance art, TransX centralizes work by and about Latinx transgender and gender divergent activists, artists, and writers. Open to both graduate and undergraduate students, we will ask of these works: How does the Latinx trans body move across material worlds where other narratives and feelings also roam and impact larger stakes of gender, sexuality, and...

Problematizing what we mean by “feminism,” this course complicates and extends ideas of who or what is the modern Latinx woman. From art, Latin Trap, literature, and film this is a course that brings together different versions of “feminism” through a queer Latinx lens. In this course we will intimately engage and extend the categories of body, race, gender, and sexuality through varying representations, narratives, and preconceived notions about the power of the Latinx femme in literary and artistic production in our contemporary present. We still study...