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: Literature as Politics and Protest What are the social and political implications of writing and reading literature? How do literary texts contribute to social change and what is our role, as readers of literature, in that endeavour? How might we read literature as a form of political praxis or activism? What […]
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
Arts, Cultures and Society from Romanticism to the Present Day Arts, cultures et société du romantisme à nos jours Ce cours a pour objectif de familiariser les étudiants avec les grands mouvements esthétiques, intellectuels et sociaux qui ont marqué la France moderne et contemporaine, du début du XIXe siècle jusqu’au tournant du XXIe siècle. À […]
FREN418
African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures Studies in French Postcolonial Literature Notre cours porte sur le rapport de l’idée de Francophonie aux études dites postcoloniales. Quelles sont les tensions entre la donnée institutionnelle, historique de la Francophonie et le cadre théorique postcolonial, par exemple ? Nous aborderons la question de la pertinence de concepts tels que […]
FREN357
French to English Translation Focusing on the main challenges involved in intercultural communication, this course provides a basic introduction to foundations, principles, practical strategies, and methods of translation from French to English for a variety of literary, general, specialized, professional, and creative purposes. We will explore the strategies and tools translators use when faced with […]
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 and 20th centuries. We […]
RMST201
Introduction to Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World I: Medieval to Modern In this course, we will be reading literary texts across a variety of genres—prose, poetry, and drama—originally written in French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Many are by authors you may have heard of, and they include […]
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 […]