SPAN550
Literaturas hispánicas en tránsito, desde los viajes coloniales hasta las migraciones actuales Este curso se propone examinar el variado corpus de relatos de viaje escritos por autores hispanoamericanos y españoles desde la conquista de América hasta la actualidad. Dichos relatos nos guiarán a través de mundos a veces exotizados o amenazantes, misteriosos o distópicos. Dentro […]
FREN514
France in Ruins: Wounded Spaces From 1945 to the Present Ruins have been at the center of the French imaginary since the sixteenth century. They represented in turn the decay of the pagan world, its architectural genius, the height of the sublime, and a refuge for earthly pleasures or the inquisitive mind. The twentieth century, […]
FREN502
Masculinités, féminités et questions d’identité à la Renaissance Cross-listed with FREN495 Le masculin et le féminin sont souvent remis en question depuis l’émergence des études sur le genre (gender studies). Cependant, même si les voies d’approche récentes à la sexualité ou à l’altérité nous permettent d’analyser quelques-uns de ces concepts sous un nouveau jour, nous […]
SPAN322
Latino/Chicano Literature This course will survey the literatures and cultures of Latino/as and Chicano/as in the United States and Canada. We will read authors such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Tomás Rivera, Piri Thomas, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Díaz, and Carmen Rodríguez. The settings will range from nineteenth-century California to twentieth-century Spanish Harlem and South […]
SPAN404A
From World to Screen: Topics in Hispanic Cinema El curso es un acercamiento al cine español de finales del siglo XX y el siglo XXI. Se estudiarán algunas de las películas más representativas y que, además, por su evidente calidad, han despertado el interés del público y de la crítica. Las películas seleccionadas son representativas […]
FREN420A
Le roman de l’extrême contemporain Une des caractéristiques du roman français aujourd’hui réside dans l’absence de frontières génériques (romanesque, autobiographie, essai, polar, science-fiction) accompagnée d’une surenchère de mouvements ou courants (académique, nouveau roman, avant-gardiste, historique, féministe, minimaliste, etc.). Force est de se demander : qu’est-ce qui se joue dans le roman de la fin du […]
SPAN490C
La escritura sonora: El sonido y la escucha en la literatura latinoamericana Latin America has a rich and complex tradition of orality, both aural and textual. This course reads 20th- and 21st-century literature in relation to that tradition, considering how recent works build on and (perhaps more importantly) diverge from, oral practices that have been […]
FREN416B
Shades of Truth and Fiction in Contemporary French Literature Contemporary literature is not easily grasped. It is constantly unfolding, leaving us, its readers, little time to map the field and little distance to judge what will become the emblematic works of our era. While this uncertainty may seem daunting, contemporary literature offers us unique opportunities […]
SPAN520A
Women Breaking/Bridging Borders: Intercultural Performance in Transatlantic Literature Instructor: Elizabeth Lagresa-González Language of instruction: Spanish The course will include drama, poetry, prose fiction, biographical essays, historical and theoretical texts, as well as visual materials, to help us think through the following questions: How are transatlantic and cross-cultural encounters represented artistically, linguistically, culturally and visually? How do […]
SPAN520
Cervantes: Don Quijote and Beyond Instructor: Elizabeth Lagresa-González Language of instruction: Spanish This course examines Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s masterpiece “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha” (Part I, 1605) in relation to some of his lesser-known creations, the “Novelas ejemplares” (1613) and “Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nuevos, nunca representados” (1615). By applying an […]