How is the past refashioned to appeal to the political present? How are dominant narratives about the past solidified, contested and/or reimagined? And what are the silences that the drive to "recuperate" a silenced past paradoxically produces? Debates over how to memorialize---or not---a conflictive past are at the forefront of political discussions today, ranging from the renaming of buildings to the revision of history textbooks. This course utilizes Spain's politics of memory as a case study to explore how contemporary societies grapple with the memory of a recent violent past.

This course provides students with an overview of Iberian feminism from a transatlantic perspective (Spain-the Americas). The class starts with an examination of the origins of Iberian feminisms that pays special attention to transatlantic literary networks and spaces. In the process, students are introduced to key concepts around feminism and/or women's writing: the struggle over women's rights; women as a labor force and consumers; models of gender identity and nation building; sexual liberation, etc.

Independent Study is available to students wishing to complete study in a topic not covered by a regular course.

Independent study is available to those students who wish to continue their learning in an area after completing the regularly offered courses in that area.

This course surveys roughly one hundred years of Latin American film, from 1896 to the present, with a focus on feature-length narrative films. As its title suggests -- a riff on the title of Gabriel García Márquez's celebrated novel -- its overarching theme is the role film has played in shaping collective identities(national, racial, sexual, etc.) throughout the region. That is, this course tracks the development of film as a technology and as a form of artistic expression in Latin America, as well as the social, political, and economic realities that it represents and shapes.

A survey of Spanish literature between its two golden ages; close reading of selected texts; consideration of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Realism in a Spanish context; and examination of interplay among society, politics, art, and literature.

An intensive study of selected works reflecting the intellectual, political, and aesthetic changes in Spain from 1140 to 1499 AD.

Synthesis of various aspects of literary studies. Topics to meet special needs. Since content changes, this course may be repeated for credit.

This course explores the diversity of the Latina/o/x/e experiences and introduces students to the originality of artistic and cultural expressions of the Latinx communities in the United States, focusing on texts written originally in Spanish. Plays, performance pieces, short stories, novels, testimonies, poems, essays, films, documentaries, and blogs help students understand the complex and often silenced histories of the U.S. Latinx population. Thus, literature becomes a place where identities and ideologies are articulated, debated and contested.

This course surveys roughly one hundred years of Latin American film, from 1896 to the present, with a focus on feature-length narrative films. As its title suggests -- a riff on the title of Gabriel García Márquez's celebrated novel -- its overarching theme is the role film has played in shaping collective identities (national, racial, sexual, etc.) throughout the region. That is, this course tracks the development of film as a technology and as a form of artistic expression in Latin America, as well as the social, political, and economic realities that it represents and shapes.