Fall 2011

THREE-CREDIT COURSES

SPAN 70200 – Spanish Literary Theory
GC: Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. 4422, 3 credits, Prof. Perkowska, [15913]

SPAN 70300 – Introduction to Methods of Research
GC: Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. 4419, 3 credits, Prof. Lerner, [15914]

SPAN 72900 – Spanish in Social Context
GC: Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 7395, 3 credits, Prof. Otheguy, [15915]
(cross-listed with LING 79400)

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Text Editing and Paleography
GC: Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 3305, 3 credits, Dr. O'Neill, [15919]

FOUR-CREDIT SEMINARS

SPAN 80000 – Seminar: Studies in Spanish Linguistics – Language and Citizenship in National and Transnational Contexts
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 3310A, 4 credits, Prof. del Valle, [15918]
(cross-listed with LING 79600)

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – South of the River, North of the Desert: Contemporary Mexican Narrative in the Margins of Modernity
GC: Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. 4433, 4 credits, Prof. Zavala, [15921]

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – Beyond Tradition: Lyric Poetry and Colonial Criollismo
GC: Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Rm. 4422, 4 credits, Prof. Chang-Rodríguez, [15922]

SPAN 87200 – Seminar: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature – The Cinemas of Pedro Almodóvar and Guillermo del Toro
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 9105, 4 credits, Prof. Smith, [15923], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with FSCP 81000)

PORT 88100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Portuguese Literature I – Modernismo or Vanguardias? Brazilian Modernism and Latin American Avant-garde
GC: Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 3310B, 4 credits, Prof. Santos, [15924], (taught in Spanish)

ONE-CREDIT MINI-SEMINARS

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Novelistas españolas del siglo XXI y compromiso histórico
GC: Thursday, 9/22 & Friday, 9/23, 1:00-4:00pm, Saturday, 9/24, 10:00am-2:00pm, Rm. 5212,
1 credit, Prof. Diez de Revenga, [15920]
(Delibes Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Cultura y cambio político en Euskadi
GC: Monday, 9/12 – Friday, 9/16, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Rm. 4116.18, 1 credit, Prof. Atxaga, [16617]
(Basque Institute & Bernardo Atxaga Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – Dictadura, novela y memoria en Argentina
GC: Tuesday, 10/11 – Friday, 10/14, 1:30-4:00 p.m., Rm. 4116.18, 1 credit, Prof. de Diego, [16618]
(Argentine Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

CROSS-LISTED COURSES

RSCP 72100 – Introduction to Renaissance Studies: Cultural Exchanges in the Renaissance
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 3309, 3 or 4 credits, Prof. Schwartz, [15925], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with SPAN 82000)

UED 71100 – Bilingualism and Education: Global Sociolinguistic Perspectives
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. 4419, 3 credits, Prof. Garcia, [15926], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with SPAN 80100)

Course Description

THREE-CREDIT COURSES

SPAN 70200 – Spanish Literary Theory
GC: Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Prof. Perkowska, [15913]

The twentieth century has witnessed the development of a wide range of theories of literature that have influenced our reading, understanding, and criticism of both genres and works. This course is an introduction to the history and practice of modern literary and cultural theory. We will examine the issues of meaning, interpretation, criticism, and ideology from different theoretical perspectives, focusing on Post-structuralism and Deconstruction, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminism and Gender Studies, Marxism and New Historicism, and Postcolonial Theories. Discussion of each approach will focus on theoretical premises and implications, and will investigate argumentation and ground for critique. In addition, we will apply these theoretical models to a variety of selected texts in order to illustrate how theory models our understanding of a literary work.

SPAN 70300 – Introduction to Methods of Research
GC: Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Prof. Lerner, [15914]

In this course the purpose is to study the methods and techniques developed for the annotation of Hispanic texts written in all literary periods, from the Middle Ages to our times. Problems to be addressed are: the multicultural and multinational characteristics of the Spanish language; the different approaches to textual annotation that exist - grammatical, rhetorical and lexical notes, their nature and scope; historical and cultural elements. The history, characteristics and uses of dictionaries, vocabularies, concordances and grammar books as well as more contemporary technological resources. This course was structured as a workshop. Students will be asked to annotate specific works assigned in advance and should be ready to discuss their research in class. There will be a required annotation of a different text given three days in advance to each student as a form of final examination.

SPAN 72900 – Spanish in Social Context
GC: Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits, Prof. Otheguy, [15915]

The course will address issues of Spanish as seen from the point of view of the sociolinguistics of language and the sociolinguistics of society (or, as these two approaches are also known, variationist sociolinguistics and the sociology of language). Under the first approach, we will study variable features of Spanish phonology and morphosyntax, as these are conditioned by external factors (personal and socio-demographic) and internal factors (morphosyntactic and communicative). We will also consider some of the classic issues of Latin American and Peninsular dialectology. Under the second approach, we will ask the root sociology-of-language question, that is, who speaks what to whom where and for what purposes, as it applies to Spanish-speaking settings in Latin America, the Peninsula, and the Hispanic communities of the United States. Classes will be conducted in Spanish (but questions can be asked, and will be answered, in English). Some readings will be in Spanish, others in English. Exams and papers are written in Spanish or English, according to the student's choice.

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Text Editing and Paleography
GC: Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits, Dr. O'Neill, [15919]

The course will present an introduction to paleography, lexicography and the transcription of manuscript material. We will focus on manuscripts from the medieval, colonial and Golden Age periods. Students will gain firsthand experience working with original material selected from the collections of The Hispanic Society of America. We will also study the theory of editing early modern texts and the place of the manuscript in the intellectual and cultural environments of early modern Spain.

FOUR-CREDIT SEMINARS

SPAN 80000 – Seminar: Studies in Spanish Linguistics – Language and Citizenship in National and Transnational Contexts
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 4 credits, Prof. del Valle, [15918]
(cross-listed with LING 79600)

In this seminar, we examine the politics of language representation in the Spanish-speaking world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the various nation-building processes undertaken by Spain's former colonies, in Spain's own efforts to develop as a homogeneous modern nation, and in the tensions generated by divergent conceptualizations of a transatlantic Spanish-speaking community, we often find language taking center stage either as a tool or as an object of political action. We will review the nature and implications of policies that aimed at the construction of culturally and linguistically homogeneous communities – both national and transnational – as well as metalinguistic discourses in which questions of citizenship and cultural autonomy – again, in national and transnational dimensions – were being worked out. We will analyze Andrés Bello's Gramática castellana, the orthographic controversies in Chile, Spain's officialization of the Royal Spanish Academy's orthography, the creation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the polemic between Juan Valera and Rufino José Cuervo over the fragmentation of Spanish and the unity of the cultural field, Pedro Henríquez Ureña's racialization of Dominican Spanish, the debates surrounding "el idioma nacional de los argentinos" and the constitution of a national literature, the scholarly treatment of Spanish by the Madrid School of Spanish philology, and more recent policies aimed at affirming a pan-Hispanic community. The theoretical backdrop will be provided by discussions of classical (Haugen, Fishman) and critical (Canagarajah, Crowley, Milroy/Milroy, Parakrana) theories of language standardization, of both historiographical and anthropological approaches to linguistic ideologies (Joseph/Taylor, Schieffelin/Woolard/Kroskrity, Kroskrity), and of treatments of language, citizenship and modern subjectivity in Latin America (Julio Ramos, González Stephan, Narvaja de Arnoux). Students will write two-page reaction papers on a bi-weekly basis, do an in-class presentation of an assigned article, and take mid-term and final take-home exams. [The course will be conducted in Spanish but students are free to speak and write in English].

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – South of the River, North of the Desert: Contemporary Mexican Narrative in the Margins of Modernity
GC: Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 4 credits, Prof. Zavala, [15921]

Seminar description: The north of Mexico, and especially the border with the U.S., has been portrayed either as a region of a problematical but celebrated cultural hybridity, or as an expansive slum of extreme poverty and senseless violence. An essential objectification of the border seems to be articulated out of these two radical poles without assessing practices of cultural agency and resistance, which in turn reveal dynamics of power constituting hegemonic and centralized discourses of nationalism. In the last two decades, however, a trend in Mexican narrative has emerged challenging these notions while privileging the north as the complex space for political, historical, economical and sociological (re)narration of the nation. This seminar analyzes the works of narrators as they search for counterhegemonic representations and (re)narrations of this region: Daniel Sada, Roberto Bolaño, David Toscana, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Yuri Herrera, Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, and Élmer Mendoza. These authors' works will be examined vis-à-vis debates on modernity and national identity through selections by Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra, Claudio Lomnitz and Joshua Lund, and theoretical approaches by Homi Bhabha, Walter Mignolo, Alberto Moreiras, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Rancière, and Alain Badiou. Course requirements: Each week students will write a one-page response paper to a question posed by the professor. All students will deliver an individual in-class presentation covering one text or topic discussed. Students will write a term paper that expands on their class presentation.

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – Beyond Tradition: Lyric Poetry and Colonial Criollismo
GC: Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 4 credits, Prof. Chang-Rodríguez, [15922]

The aim of this course is to explore how New World poets in viceregal America assimilated and often subverted Spanish poetic tradition. The discussions will include the manner in which Spanish themes and models were appropriated to produce a singular vision of America and its colonial subjects. The analyses will underscore how the New World poet, when expressing their concerns and interests, contributed to developing a "conciencia criolla." Authors to be discussed include: the anonymous women poets from Peru, Bernardo de Balbuena, Silvestre de Balboa, Juan del Valle y Caviedes. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz will receive special attention in order to highlight the concerns of women and other marginalized subjects. Among the objectives of the course are: to situate the writers in a historical and literary grid, to study their work as paradigmatic texts of a "mestizo" poetic tradition, and to pay special attention to understudied authors through individual research projects. Discussions will be illustrated with images and communication facilitated through the use of Blackboard. The specific bibliography will be distributed in class. Among General Requirements: Oral presentations; term essay (MLA Style); written class exercise. Active class participation is expected and it should reflect previous reading of the assigned texts and critical material. Texts to be purchased: 1) "Aquí, ninfas del sur, venid ligeras." Voces poéticas virreinales. Ed. R. Chang-Rodríguez. Madrid/Fráncfort: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2008; 2) Bernardo de Balbuena, Grandeza mexicana (any ed.); 3) Silvestre de Balboa, Espejo de paciencia. Ed. Raúl Marrero Fente. Madrid: Cátedra, 2010.

SPAN 87200 – Seminar: Special Topics in Hispanic Literature – The Cinemas of Pedro Almodóvar and Guillermo del Toro
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 4 credits, Prof. Smith, [15923], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with FSCP 81000)

This course, which will be taught for the first time in Fall 2011 and requires no knowledge of Spanish, examines the works of contemporary Spain and Mexico's most successful filmmakers, critically and commercially. These two figures might appear to be very different and, indeed, have formally collaborated only when Almodóvar produced del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, shot and set in Spain. Although he has greater transnational projection than perhaps any other European filmmaker, Almodóvar has filmed all seventeen features in his home country and language; while del Toro, with just seven films, has made for himself a nomadic career in two languages and three countries. Yet it can be argued that the pair has a great deal in common. For example, both directors have embraced transmedia, going beyond the feature film. Almodóvar's production company has expanded into television and theater; del Toro is a respected creator in the fields of the comic book and novel. Their internet presence is also substantial. The aims of the course are industrial, critical, and theoretical. First, Almodóvar is placed in the context of audiovisual production in Spain, while del Toro (as director and producer) is contextualized within the 'golden triangle' of Mexico, Europe, and the US. Second, both cineastes are interrogated for signs of auteurship (a consistent aesthetic and media image), sharing as they do a self-fashioning that takes place, unusually, within the confines of genre cinema (comedy/melodrama and fantasy/horror, respectively). Finally, the course explores how English-language critics have assimilated these two Spanish-speaking directors to debates in Anglo-American film studies that draw on psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and the transnational.

PORT 88100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Portuguese Literature I – Modernismo or Vanguardias? Brazilian Modernism and Latin American Avant-garde
GC: Thursday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 4 credits, Prof. Santos, [15924], (taught in Spanish)

The course offers a contrastive comparison between Brazilian Modernismo and Latin American Vanguardias. Although both nominations refer to the same chronological period – the 20s of 20th Century, rarely they are recognized as such by Brazilians and Spanish speakers Latin Americans. Contrasting the poetry of Mario de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira with poets such as Cesar Vallejo o Nicolas Guillén, the prose of Oswald de Andrade and Martin Adan, among others, aims to fulfill the gaps of knowledge of the literature written in this period in Latin American, in Portuguese and in Spanish. On the other hand, the exposure of the students to the works of writers of both languages aims to broad the knowledge of the literatures written in each one of these specific languages. Avant-garde theories will be use as a theoretical support.Textbook: Las Vanguardias Latinoamericanas (Tierra Firme) (Spanish Edition) Jorge Schwartz (Author). The original edition, in Portuguese, is also available.
ONE-CREDIT SEMINARS

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Novelistas españolas del siglo XXI y compromiso historíco
GC: Day:TBA, 1 credit, Prof. Diez de Revenga, [15920]
(Delibes Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

Numerosas novelistas españolas actuales han publicado, en la primera década del siglo XXI (2001-2010), narraciones en las que forma parte de los materiales narrativos un importante componente basado en hechos de la reciente historia de España y de Europa, de manera que personajes y tramas se ven mediatizados por las reacciones ante acontecimientos dramáticos de la realidad histórica del siglo anterior. Las nuevas escritoras, al contrario que los novelistas, expresan así su compromiso con la historia reciente, que afecta especialmente a mujeres protagonistas y otros personajes femeninos.

1. Las secuelas de la Guerra de España.
2. España durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
3. El franquismo y sus consecuencias.
4. La España de la transición: de la esperanza al desengaño.
5. La España actual: terrorismo, crisis económica, crisis social.

SPAN 87000 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature – Cultura y cambio político en Euskadi
GC: Monday, 9/12 – Friday, 9/16, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 1 credit, Prof. Atxaga, [16617]
(Basque Institute & Bernardo Atxaga Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

Muchos lingüistas del pasado afirmaron que la lengua vasca o euskara desaparecería a mediados del siglo XX. Pero, muy al contrario, tanto la lengua vasca como su literatura se hicieron cada vez más fuertes, hasta el extremo de tener hoy un espacio propio entre las culturas de Europa. La primera parte del curso tratará de explicar este "misterio". En la segunda, se hablará fundamentalmente de literatura tratando de responder a preguntas básicas como: ¿Qué es tradición? ¿Qué es plagio? ¿Qué función cumple el espacio geográfico en las novelas? ¿Qué lugar ocupa hoy la poesía? En general, el curso tratará de ser una sucesión de casos prácticos evitando el discurso meramente teórico.

SPAN 87100 – Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature – Dictadura, novela y memoria en Argentina
GC: Tuesday, 10/12 – Friday, 10/14, 1:30-4:00 p.m., 1 credit, Prof. de Diego, [16618]
(Argentine Chair) (mini-course, 10 hours)

Este mini-seminario examinará debates político-intelectuales en Argentina entre 1970 y 1990, puestos en relación con las novelas más sobresalientes producidas en años de la dictadura, como Respiración artificial (1980) de Ricardo Piglia, Nadie nada nunca (1980) de Juan José Saer, La vida entera (1981) de Juan Martini o El vuelo del tigre (1981) de Daniel Moyano.

CROSS-LISTED COURSES

RSCP 70100 - Introduction to Renaissance Studies: Cultural Exchanges in the Renaissance
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 or 4 credits, Prof. Schwartz, [15925], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with SPAN 82000)

This course will examine some Italian encounters with the ancient classics, which fostered the invention of new literary forms and new literary voices, and their impact on sixteenth-century French and Spanish literature. It will focus on the shaping of this movement promoted by Petrarch, and on its development in the following centuries with the works of Alberti, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus and other famous humanists. Special attention will be given to the function fulfilled by translators of texts written in Greek into Latin, and of both Greek and Latin into the modern languages, who helped disseminate philosophical theories and literary forms of expression after the invention of the printing press, thus becoming mediators between classical and Renaissance authors. Translation will be also considered in its propaedeutic function as a first step in the practice of imitation, which ruled the composition of artistic works and constituted a main tenet of Renaissance aesthetics. New literary voices and cultural figures to be explored will encompass the Neoplatonic lover, the humanist and the courtier; among new literary forms, Menippean satire, as composed after the model of Lucian, which became very influential after the fifteenth century. Readings will include poems by Petrarch, Ronsard, Garcilaso de la Vega and Herrera; Ficino's Dell'amore; Alberti's Momus; Erasmus's Colloquies; Castiglione's Il cortegiano, and Cervantes's exemplary novels.

UED 71100 – Bilingualism and Education: Global Sociolinguistic Perspectives
GC: Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits, Prof. Garcia, [15926], (taught in English)
(cross-listed with SPAN 80100)
This seminar will explore how theories of bilingualism/multilingualism can be a lens to think about policies, programs and practices to meaningfully educate the increasing number of bilingual children throughout the world. In reviewing theories of bilingualism/multilingualism, the seminar will put special emphasis on post-structuralist sociolinguistic approaches to the topic, and how these can lead to a re-imagining of education for all bilingual children in the 21st century. Taking a global approach, the seminar will include international contexts, but will also pay close attention to the education of bilingual children in the United States, especially of Latino children.

This course is designed as a collective effort aimed at examining major textual problems of 
La Celestina. It deals primarily with questions relating to the early stages of the textual 
tradition of the Comedia in its manuscript and printed form: from the manuscript fragment to the
early versions in 16 acts to the Tragicomedia in 21 acts. Focusing on the most significant additions, 
interpolations and substitutions we will consider the role that printers, correctors, booksellers and 
the reading public played in the evolution of this most puzzling text. Attention will also be paid 
to the genesis of the work and to the problem of multiple authorship, exploring, at the same time, 
some of the ramifications implicit in these issues. Through a close analysis of the nature of 
certain errors, we will restore, whenever possible, the correct reading of the text. As a supplement
to the philological praxis of the neo-Lachmannean method that only deals with single textual problems,
we will strive to relate the individual lectio to the entire work. To this end, emphasis will be 
placed on documentary evidence (humanist comedies, letters, treatises) as possible sources for
resolving specific textual corruptions and unexplained obscure readings. Text to be used: Fernando de
Rojas, Comedia o Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, Ed. Peter E. Russell, Clásicos Castalia. 
Supplementary editions to be consulted in class: Celestina, Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, 
Fernando de Rojas, Introducción y edición crítica de Miguel Marciales, 2 Vol. Edited posthumously by
Brian Dutton and Joseph T. Snow, Urbana y Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985; Patrizia Botta,
P. Botta, Edizione critica della Celestina di Fernando de Rojas (dall'Atto VIII alla Fine), Facoltà
di Lettere, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; Celestina. Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, Fernado
de Rojas; Fernando de Rojas (y “Antiguo Autor”), La Celestina. Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.
Edición y estudio de Francisco J. Lobera y Guillermo Serés, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Carlos Mota e Íñigo Ruiz
Arzálluz, y Francisco Rico, Barcelona: Crítica, 2000.

SPAN 70200    Spanish Literary Theory
3 credits, Prof. Childers

This course will survey major trends in twentieth-century literary theory, beginning with formalist approaches and continuing with varieties of historicist/ideological analysis. During the last third of the semester, we will examine theoretical questions of particular interest to Hispanists, such as the Baroque and Neobaroque, or cultural hybridity and magical realism. The primary focus will be on the use of theory to illuminate individual texts. To that end, each student will choose a single, canonical text to work on from a variety of theoretical viewpointsover the course of the semester.

SPAN 70300    Introduction to Methods of Research
3 credits, Prof. Lerner

The purpose of this course is to study the methods and techniques developed for the annotation of Hispanic texts written in all literary periods, from the Middle Ages to our times. Problems to be addressed are the multicultural and multinational characteristics of the Spanish language; the different approaches to textual annotation that exist – grammatical, rhetorical and lexical notes, their nature and scope; historical and cultural elements; the history, characteristics and uses of dictionaries, vocabularies, concordances and grammar books as well as more contemporary technological resources. This course is structured as a workshop. Students will be asked to annotate specific works assigned in advance and should be ready to discuss their research in class.

SPAN 72100    Medieval Prose: From the Exemplum to the Novela
3 credits, Prof. Di Camillo

SPAN 72900    Introduction to Spanish Sociolinguistics
3 credits, Prof. Otheguy, (cross listed with Ling 76100)

The course will address issues of Spanish as seen from the point of view of the sociolinguistics of language and the sociolinguistics of society or, as these two approaches are also known, variationist sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Classes will be conducted in Spanish. Some readings will be in English, others in Spanish. Written work and class discussion will be in the language chosen by the student. Under the first approach, we will study variable features of Spanish phonology and morphysyntax as these are conditioned by internal and external factors and studied in multivariate analyses. Under the second approach, we will ask the classic sociology-of-language question, who speaks what to whom where and for what purposes, as it applies to Spanish-speaking settings in Latin America, the Peninsula, and the Hispanic communities of the United States.

SPAN 76700    Spanish-American Novel since 1960: The Rewriting of the 19th Century
3 credits, Prof. Filer

In the second half of the 20th Century many Spanish American novelists reached back into the past in search for the roots of the political and cultural crisis that affected their countries at the time of their writing. The19th Century, a period that covers the struggles for independence and for national organization, became the object of frequent reinterpretation. By questioning the official texts, and writing apocryphal alternative histories, the novelists created a space for reflection and criticism, and enhanced the historical consciousness of their readers. While new authors and literary strategies have emerged, and we are now in the 21rst Century, the production of novels that dwell on the past continues unabated. The course offers an analysis of representative novels by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan José Saer, César Aira and María Rosa Lojo.

SPAN 77600    Spanish-American Theatre: Theatre and Performance in, about, and around Buenos Aires
4 credits, Prof. Graham-Jones, (cross listed with Theater 86000)

This course will survey the history of theatre and performance in Buenos Aires, from (and before) the city's two foundings to the present high level of activity.  We will look at related theatrical production taking place around Buenos Aires, especially in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, in order to situate the city's theatre and performance within a larger River Plate context.  Finally, this course will also include productions about Buenos Aires, such as the work produced by Argentinean expatriates and exiles as well as plays and performances in which Buenos Aires appears as subject.  Thus we will look closely not only at the complex relations of "immigrant" and "native" cultures present in the earlier traditions of the drama gauchesco, sainete criollo, and grotesco criollo; we will also trace the various currents in twentieth- and twenty-first-century practices through some of the key individual and group practitioners. There will be a series of required online responses and interventions, as well as a final research paper.  Please note that this course has a prerequisite: all students are expected to have reading knowledge of Spanish.  While every effort will be made to provide the texts in English translation, not all of the plays, transcripts, or secondary materials have been translated into English.  The final research paper may be written in English or Spanish; class discussion will be conducted in English.

SPAN 80000    Studies in Spanish Linguistics
4 credits, Prof. Otheguy, (cross listed with Ling 82100)

The purpose of the course is for students (a) to become familiar with the literature on variable linguistic phenomena, (b) to learn to discuss this literature critically and to evaluate the role of variability within linguistic theory, (c) to understand the effect of social factors on linguistic phenomena, (d) to understand and learn to develop social and linguistic constraint hierarchies for the analysis of variable linguistic phenomena, (e) to learn the basic statistical tools used in variationist research (correlation, anova, multiple regression, and logistic regression) using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and (f) to design a variationist research project using data from the language of their choice. In preparation for the course, students may want to read Chapter 8 of Ralph Fasold’s The sociolinguistics of language, entitled ‘Linguistic Variation’, as well as some of the papers in J.K. Chambers et al.’s, The handbook of language variation and change, which will be used in the course.

SPAN 86200    The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
4 credit, Prof. Gottlieb

An examination of Neruda’s major poetic works, the most significant critical studies of his work, and the influence of his work on contemporary Latin American poetry. Required Readings:Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Residencia en la tierra, Canto general, Odas elementales, Estravagario, Los versos del capitán, Cien sonetos de amor, Memorial de Isla Negra, and  Confieso que he vivido.


SPAN 87000    Special Topics in Spanish Literature: The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Text
3 credits, Dr. O'Neill

The course will study the development and evolution of the printed text in the Hispanic world from its beginnings to ca. 1830, with special emphasis on the medieval and Golden Age periods. We will also study the theory of editing early modern printed texts and will transcribe various texts.

SPAN 87000    Special Topics in Spanish Literature: El Barroco español y la Generación del 27 (Delibes Chair)
1 credit, Prof. Aurora Egido (University of Zaragoza), (mini-course, 10 hours)

SPAN 87100    Evolución de la prosa femenina hispanoamericana (siglos XIX y XX)
4 credits, Prof. Guiñazú

This course examines the writing of Spanish American Women from the 1850’s to the present. Since they began writing professionally, women writers have questioned and confronted traditional ideologies concerning gender, class, race, women rights, and the power of institutions. In their texts, the creative process becomes a way to explore social reality and its incidence on identity. We will pay special attention to the historical evolution brought about by political and social change. We will also include discussion of the critical and theoretical texts that frame their work. Texts may include works by the following authors: Juana Manuela Gorriti, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, María Luisa Bombal, Elena Poniatowska, Marta Traba, Laura Restrepo, Sara Sefchovich, Teresa Porzecanski, and others.

SPAN 87500    Studies in Galician Literature: La diversidad lingüística en España: realidades, ideologías y discursos
1 credit, Prof. Anxo Lorenzo, (mini-course, 10 hours)

Spain’s political transition from dictatorship to democracy came hand in hand with a linguistic transition: from a de facto ban on the usage of autochtonous languages other than Castilian to their partial legal recognition in the 1978 Constitution – which adopted a model that established the monolingualism of the center and the bilingualism of the periphery. This “linguistic transition” revolved around the organization of political, legal, and administrative instruments that turned language policy into a terrain for government intervention on behalf of the dignity and recovery of autochtonous languages. The objective of this seminal is to analyze three aspects of this glottopolitical and sociolinguistic process: first, to assess the outcome of language policy in autonomous communities; second, to identify the Spanish State’s policy with respect to linguistic diversity in Spain as well as its consequences; and third, to analyze discourses and ideologies surrounding language and language policy as were deployed during this period.

PORT 73400    Brazilian Fiction of the 20th Century: Latin American Essay/Brazilian Criticism in Comparative Perspective
3 credits, Prof. Santos

During this course the students will examine the Brazilian essay in a contrastive comparison with Spanish American essay. From Colonial to contemporary authors, the readings point to the nation-building process and its contemporary deconstruction. Essays written by Antonil, José de Alencar, Joaquim Nabuco, Machado de Assis, Gilberto Freyre, Mário de Andrade and Haroldo de Campos will be compared with Spanish American texts authored by Clavijero, Sarmiento, Rodó, José Vasconcelos and  Octavio Paz, among others.


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IDS 81640    New World Baroque: Film & Fiction from the Americas
3 credits, Prof. Jerry Carlson & Prof. Lidia Santos

This course will investigate films and literary narratives from the USA, Brazil and the Caribbean from the last 70 years of the 20th century. The concept of Baroque as applied here refers to the broad inclusion of different artistic and cultural elements as well as multiple constructive principles within the same work.  Historical and cultural events such as the Good Neighbor Policy and the appearance of new cultural identities will be treated within a hemispheric perspective. Filmmakers include Orson Welles, Glauber Rocha. Olivers Stone, and Tomas Gutierrez Alea, among others. Alejo Carpentier, William Faulkner, Vinicius de Moraes and Senel Paz are some of the writers to be examined. The Brazilian cultural movement Tropicália will also be discussed. Attention will  be paid to theories of the New World Baroque proposed by Carlos Fuentes, Jose Lezama Lima, Edouard Glissant, Lois Zamora, and others.

FSC 81000    Contemporary Hispanic Cinema
3 credits, Prof. Nora Glickman