RMST453
Within the Universe/The Universe Within — Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy: A Visionary Journey into Medieval Eco-Cosmology Cross-listed with ITAL403 Undoubtedly the best-known of all poems written in the Italian language during the last seven hundred years, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy takes us on a most unusual journey. We begin our travels quivering with the wayfarer […]
SPAN504B
América Latina Errante: Displacement, Globalization, Melancholy in Latin American Cinema Instructor: Alessandra Santos Language of instruction: Spanish This seminar aims to examine contemporary Latin American cinema under the lens of displacements. We will study the geographical, cultural and subjective dislocations that occur due to economic and political globalization after 1990, migration, (im)mobility, tensions and conflicts that arise […]
RMST372
Topics in Hispanic Literature Cross-listed with SPAN 312C Explore Spain and Latin America’s contributions to global culture through popular Hispanic literature in translation. Prerequisites: No prerequisites Language of instruction: English
RMST343
Pinocchio & Everything Else Cross-listed with ITAL 333 In this course we re-visit Pinocchio, the original educational story for children (the would-be Bildungsroman, if one will) authored in Italian by the Florentine Carlo Collodi (1881 and 1882-83), seeing it in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum «It is no measure of health to be […]
FREN341
Rues, routes et boulevards: Modern Narratives in French All throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, French literature was undergoing dramatic transformations. Not only was it reflecting the effects of revolutions, wars, and new ways of life, but it was in turn impacting society at its core. Our way of apprehending this movement will be to […]
FREN418
African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures Ce cours invite les étudiants à découvrir les littératures antillaise et africaine d’expression française. Notre itinéraire transocéanique nous amène en Afrique de l’Ouest, en Haïti et en Algérie. La première partie du cours sera consacrée à une épopée africaine du Moyen Âge et sa représentation de la fondation de l’Empire […]
FREN357
Translation Focusing on the main challenges involved in intercultural communication, this course will teach the foundations, principles, practical strategies, and methods of translation from French to English and English to French for a variety of professional, literary, and creative purposes. We will explore the strategies and tools that translators use when faced with challenging linguistic […]
RMST302
Theatre and Poetry of the Romance World This course explores the theatrical and poetic production of the Romance World in all its breadth and diversity, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. A particular emphasis will be put on the early modern and the modernist periods, that is, the 16th-17th and the late 19th […]
RMST201
Love and its Many Forms: How Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance From medieval courtly love, to renaissance ideals and baroque murderous passion, discover amazing tales of romance-language literature, featuring French, Italian and Spanish fiction. The course will examine major literary, cultural and artistic developments across Italy, France, Iberia and Latin America, ranging from the […]
RMST305
Introduction to Romance Language Cinema: Film Adaptation The history of cinema entails countless literary adaptations. This course will offer a study of films that have been adapted from literary works in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. We will explore cinematic productions based on visuality, sound, and text/context. We will have the opportunity to survey contexts […]