| ILAC103E | Archeology of Computer Science: Islamic, Iberian, and Pre-Columbian Roots | This course examines the history of computer science before there were computers and before there was a scientific field. It makes use of an archaeology of knowledge to find traces in the past for ideas and practices common in our present. We will ex... |
| ILAC104 | The Female Gaze: 20th-21st Century Iberian Literature and Visual Culture | What is gazing in Literature, Photography, and Film? Is there such a thing as a "female gaze"? In this course, we will explore the concept of "the gaze" in Modern and Contemporary Iberian Literature and Visual Culture from a gender perspective and a... |
| ILAC105 | Climate Change and Latin American Naturecultures | In this course, we will explore fundamental concepts of the environmental humanities as they relate to the inseparable natural and cultural phenomena that constitute climate change in Latin America. The course will be structured around different ecol... |
| ILAC111Q | Texts and Contexts: Spanish/English Literary Translation Workshop | The Argentinian writer and translator, Jorge Luis Borges, once said, 'Cada idioma es un modo de sentir el universo.' How are modes of feeling and perception translated across languages? How does the historical context of a work condition its translat... |
| ILAC112Q | 2666 | The novel 2666 has been regarded as the first classic of world literature in the 21st century. At the end of this course, you will have read and studied this work in its entirety. Close to 1000 pages long, Roberto Bolaño's opus is both daunting and e... |
| ILAC113Q | Borges and Translation | Borges's creative process and practice as seen through the lens of translation. How do Borges's texts articulate the relationships between reading, writing, and translation? Topics include authorship, fidelity, irreverence, and innovation. Readings w... |
| ILAC115Q | From Rubber to Cocaine: Commodities in Colombian Literature | Do you like "Narcos" on Netflix and want to learn more about the Drug Wars and its representation? Are you curious about Colombia? The present sophomore seminar serves the double purpose of introducing you to Colombian culture and of training you in... |
| ILAC116 | Approaches to Spanish and Spanish American Literature | Short stories, poetry, and theater. What analytical tools do the "grammars" of different genres call for? What contact zones exist between these genres? How have ideologies, the power of patronage, and shifting poetics shaped their production over ti... |
| ILAC117 | Spanish Cities | TBD |
| ILAC119 | The Memory of the Eye: Iberian Cinema from Buñuel to Almodóvar | An introduction to Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, and Catalan cinema through films from the 1920s and 30s to the present. How film uses a visual grammar of the image to tackle social questions and construct a collective memory. This course will conside... |
| ILAC122 | Drugs, Literatures and Visual Cultures in Latin America | This course aims to study the visibility of the drug object in some fin-de-siècle (19th and 20th centuries) Latin American literary practices, magazines, and journals of the time. Through the examination of this corpus of texts and images, we will di... |
| ILAC122A | Radical Poetry: The Avant-garde in Latin America and Spain | The first few decades of the 20th century ushered in a dynamic literary and aesthetic renewal in Spain and Latin America. Young poets sought a radical change in response to a rapidly changing world, one marked by the horrors of World War I and the ri... |
| ILAC123A | Resisting Coloniality: Then and Now | What are the different shapes that Western colonialism took over the centuries? How did people resist the symbolic and material oppressions engendered by such colonialist endeavors? This course offers a deep dive into history of the emergence of West... |
| ILAC124 | Coming of Age in Latin America | What can a novel tell us about coming of age? How does a novel shape a character when they do not conform to social norms? This course interrogates how the coming of age novel the Bildungsroman may combine, successfully or not, a narrative of nationa... |
| ILAC125 | Critical Feminisms in the Americas | This course examines critical feminist theories, practices, and movements in the Americas. Together, we will explore, analyze, and discuss the work of creators and activists in South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and North America, attendi... |
| ILAC126 | Latin American Art and Literature: 100 Years of Modernisms | This course will explore some of the most important Latin American artists and artistic movements of the last century. We will appreciate and discuss artworks across different media like painting, sculpture, performance, or installations coupled with... |
| ILAC127 | After Dictatorship: Facts, Fiction, and Justice in Latin America | In the wake of dictatorships across twentieth-century Latin America, writers and artists (as well as laws and truth commissions) have confronted past human rights violations. Today, authors across disciplines and genres continue to grapple with past... |
| ILAC128 | Spanish through Comics | The course, an exploration of the graphic narrative medium in Spanish, is open to intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers. We'll analyze vignettes, sections, or chapters from both auteur and pop-culture series. These may include Arrugas and Lola V... |
| ILAC12Q | Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Middle Ages and Renaissance | This three-quarter sequence asks big questions of major texts in the European and American tradition. What is a good life? How should society be organized? Who belongs? How should honor, love, sin, and similar abstractions govern our actions? Wh... |
| ILAC130 | Introduction to Iberia: Cultural Perspectives | The purpose of this course is to study major figures and historical trends in modern Iberia against the background of the linguistic plurality and cultural complexity of the Iberian world. We will cover the period from the loss of the Spanish empire,... |
| ILAC131 | Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Perspectives | This course focuses on the emergence of Latin America in modern times. How did the distinct nations and cultures of Latin America develop out of Spain and Portugal's former territories? The foundational, tumultuous period from the mid-eighteenth to t... |
| ILAC132 | Drug Wars: from Pablo Escobar to the Mara Salvatrucha to Iguala Mass Student Kidnapping | This course will study the ways in which Latin American Narcos are represented in feature films, documentaries, essays, and novels. We will choose two regions and times: Pablo Escobar's Colombia (1949-1993) and current Mexico (1990-2015), including... |
| ILAC132E | Introduction to Global Portuguese: Cultural Perspectives | Portuguese is the sixth most-spoken language in the world (roughly 250 million speakers now, with expected growth to 400 million by 2050) and the most-spoken language south of the Equator. It is the official language of nation-states on four continen... |
| ILAC136 | Modern Iberian Literatures | 1800 to the mid 20th century. Topics include: romanticism; realism and its variants; the turn of the century; modernism and the avant garde; the Civil War; and the first half of the 20th century. Authors may include Mariano Jose de Larra, Gustavo Ado... |
| ILAC139 | Jaguars and Labyrinths: A Survey of South American Short Fiction | 10 South American short stories in 10 weeks. We will read tales of jaguars and octopuses, labyrinthic cities and eerie parks, magicians and mediums, time loops and spatial stretches. Each of the works will offer a unique insight into South American l... |
| ILAC140 | Migration in 21st Century Latin American Film | Focus on how images and narratives of migration are depicted in recent Latin American film. It compares migration as it takes place within Latin America to migration from Latin America to Europe and to the U.S. We will analyze these films, and their... |
| ILAC145 | Poets, Journalists and Collectors: Latin American Modernismo | Discusses the different artistic avatars exercised by Latin American modernistas at the turn of the 19th Century in the context of growing capitalism, technological innovation and social transformation. We focus on how modernistas as poets, journalis... |
| ILAC146 | The Poetics of Crisis: Imaginación poética y crisis social en la poesía mexicana moderna | This class will focus on the intersection of poetics and politics in modern Mexican poetry, from the transformations of the mid-century, the turmoil of 1968 student movement, to the "War on drugs" and neoliberal policies that have reshaped Mexican so... |
| ILAC147 | Spanish Through Documentaries | The use of cameras in our cellphones and the constant register of everyday life through the internet has turned "documentary" into an elusive category. The course situates documentary practices in Spanish-language films. Rather than working towards t... |
| ILAC149 | The Laboring of Diaspora & Border Literary Cultures | Focus is given to emergent theories of culture and on comparative literary and cultural studies. How do we treat culture as a social force? How do we go about reading the presence of social contexts within cultural texts? How do ethno-racial writer... |
| ILAC151 | Cuban Literature and Film: Imagination, Revolt, and Melancholia. | Since the late nineteenth century, the island of Cuba has been at the center of a number of key epochal disputes: between colonialism and independence, racism and racial justice, neocolonialism and revolution, liberalism and socialism, isolationism a... |
| ILAC155 | Rivers That Were: Latin American Ecopoetry | For over a century, poetry in Latin America has been tracing the connections between the human and the nonhuman. We will examine closely the ways in which such poetry registers environmental degradation and its disproportionate impacts along axes of... |
| ILAC157 | Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures | For more than a thousand years, numerous populations - Roman, Visigothic, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian - overtook the Iberian Peninsula. With each successive wave of conquest and settlement, the overlapping civilizations produced cultural crossroads... |
| ILAC159 | Don Quijote | Focus is on a close reading of Miguel de Cervantes's prose masterpiece. Topics include: the rise of the novel, problems of authorship and meaning, modes of reading, the status of Muslim and Jewish converts in early modern Spain, the rise of capitalis... |
| ILAC161 | Modern Latin American Literature | From independence to the present. A survey of significant authors and works of Hispanic and Brazilian Portuguese literatures, focusing on fictional prose and poetry. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant... |
| ILAC175 | CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People | This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin,... |
| ILAC178 | History of Latin American Revolutions | This course will examine the causes and consequences of Latin American Revolutions of the 20th century. It will focus on Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, and Bolivia. We will bring these revolutions and experiments in social change under an... |
| ILAC181 | Philosophy and Literature | Can novels make us better people? Can movies challenge our assumptions? Can poems help us become who we are? We'll think about these and other questions with the help of writers like Toni Morrison, Marcel Proust, Jordan Peele, Charlie Kaufman, Rachel... |
| ILAC182 | Mexican Cinema in the Era of Globalization | In this course we focus on the polemic quality of Mexican contemporary cinema, as we study this cinema in relation to the scholarship on globalization. We study how contemporary Mexican films and directors participate in coding, creating and reformul... |
| ILAC193 | All about Almodóvar | Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in the world today. His films express a hybrid and eclectic visual style and the blurring of frontiers between mass and high culture. Special attention is paid to questions of sexuality... |
| ILAC194G | Black Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Music, Literature, and Art | More enslaved people from Africa were forced to Brazil than any other country and Brazil was the last country to abolish the practice of slavery in the Americas. How do these two facts impact the cultural history of Brazil? How and why was the countr... |
| ILAC199 | Individual Work | Open only to students in the department, or by consent of instructor. |
| ILAC200E | War and the Modern Novel | From the turn of the 19th century to well into the 20th century, novelists developed the theme of alienation and the decline of civilization. Along with the fall of centuries-old empires, World War I brought about the collapse of traditional European... |
| ILAC202 | Revolution and Dictatorship in Latin American Literature and Film | TBD |
| ILAC203 | Philosophies Behind Architecture: The Work of Antoni Gaudí as a Response to Modernity | The emergence of modern and contemporary Architecture in the West is intimately linked to the background culture that spread across the intellectual centers of Europe and the US between early nineteenth century and the Second World War. Catalan archi... |
| ILAC205 | The Power of Myth | Is myth a form of thought or is it that which opposes thinking? How does myth create worldviews and engage the emotions? Is myth a universal language or is it a set of cultural dialects? In this seminar myth will be approached from several directions... |
| ILAC207 | Cuba: Modernity, Subjection, Revolution | This course will explore Cuba's intellectual currents and cultural objects from the late-eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. How did different ideas about modernity, subjection, and revolution emerge and interact with one another in literary te... |
| ILAC211 | Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form | This seminar intends to follow the development of Existentialism from its genesis to its literary expressions in the European postwar. The notions of defining commitment, of moral ambiguity, the project of the self, and the critique of humanism will... |
| ILAC212A | Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds | Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f... |
| ILAC214 | Colonial Mexico: Images and Power | How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that... |
| ILAC217 | Fernando Pessoa: Aesthetics as Ontology | The poetry and prose of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portugal's greatest modern poet. As famous for his written work as for his complex understanding of selfhood, Pessoa remains a towering and largely perplexing figure even today. Class discussions w... |
| ILAC218 | Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature | This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion. The course begins with sea-dom... |
| ILAC220E | Renaissance Africa | Literature, art, and culture in Central/Southern Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasis on forms of exchange between Europeans and Africans in the Kingdom of Kongo and Angola. Readings in Portuguese and English. Taught in Eng... |
| ILAC223 | Transatlantic Methodologies | Focus is on the practice of transatlantic studies in primarily, but not exclusively hispanophone fields. Emphasis on nineteenth century, with attention to critical work spanning colonial to contemporary periods. Students are expected to survey a vari... |
| ILAC225 | Literatures of the War of 1898: Spain, Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the United States | 1898 marked a major shift in the imperial control of the Atlantic and Pacific. This course will address texts from primarily Spain, Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, the United States, and other regions. Focus on literature and theory regarding... |
| ILAC227 | The Making of Modern Brazil | This course explores vital moments in Brazil after its republican revolution of 1889 until the present. Through a cultural lens, we will study moments in Brazil's various impulses for "progress" and "modernity." Through various authors, films, artwor... |
| ILAC233 | Current Debates in Brazilian Studies | A discussion of contemporary Brazilian Studies with guest lecturers Pedro Erber (Cornell University) and Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo (UNICAMP, Brazil). Class meets February 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27, 2020. On February 27 there will be a cognate all... |
| ILAC234 | Valeria Luiselli: A Mexican New Materialist? | Award-winning Mexican Valeria Luiselli¿s (1983) novels, although thematically very different from each other, explore the tension between body and text in ways that engage with contemporary critical theory, media ecology studies and new materialist p... |
| ILAC236 | Gender and Feminist Debates in Latin America | This interdisciplinary, 10 hour, 1-unit course, explores gender politics and representation in contemporary Latin American film, theory, and social movements. Seminar format, open to undergraduate and graduate students. Works may include: film: Señor... |
| ILAC238 | Latin American Poetry as Witness to Self and World. | Can lyric poetry engage with the political? How have political contexts shaped poetic form? In this course we will study the ways in which Latin American poetry has modified, dismissed, and drawn inspiration from the traditions of the avant-garde and... |
| ILAC240E | Borges and Philosophy | Analysis of the Argentine author's literary renditions of philosophical ideas. Topics may include: time, free will, infinitude, authorship and self, nominalism vs. realism, empiricism vs. idealism, skepticism, peripheral modernities, postmodernism, a... |
| ILAC241 | Fiction Workshop in Spanish | Spanish and Spanish American short stories approached through narrative theory and craft. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on the formal elements of fiction (e.g. character and plot development, point of view, creating a scene, etc.). Stu... |
| ILAC242 | Poetry Workshop in Spanish | Latin American and Spanish poetry approached through elements of craft. Assignments are creative in nature and focus on the formal elements of poetry (meter, rhythm, lineation, rhetorical figures and tropes) and the exploration of lyric subgenres (e.... |
| ILAC243 | Latin American Aesthetics | As the branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste, aesthetics is, purportedly, universal. The course interrogates its conspicuous omission of Latin American theorization and cultural production. Three thematic ax... |
| ILAC249 | Women and Wolves in Film and Literature | This course deconstructs the foundational narrative that corrals women into capitalist patriarchy, together with animals. Paying close attention to interspecies bonds between canidae and homo sapiens, we study novels and films where women, wolves an... |
| ILAC251 | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| ILAC254 | Crónicas: Soccer, Pop Icons, Shipwrecks, and Populism | In this course, Mexican scholar and writer Juan Villoro analyzes Latin American works that sit halfway between fiction and non-fiction ("crónicas"). A survey on the shifting Latin-American cultural and political landscape, and its narrative represen... |
| ILAC256A | Landscapes in Latin American Cinema | From Patagonia to the US/Mexico border, this course examines diverse cinematic visions of the Latin American continent through documentaries, fiction films, stories, and essays. We will consider different regions and time periods, including represent... |
| ILAC263 | Visions of the Andes | Themes like "people," "revolt," "community," "utopia" and "landscape" are central to 20th century Andean narrative and its accompanying critical apparatus. The course reviews major works of Andean literature to reconsider the aesthetic and intellectu... |
| ILAC267E | Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia | (Graduate students must enroll for 5 units.) Students will analyze, in historical perspective, the similarities and differences between the development of Latin America and East Asia from early modern times to the present. Focusing primarily on Brazi... |
| ILAC268 | INDIGENISMOS REVISITED | How are indigenous peoples represented in Mexico and Peru in the early 20th century? Why do we call that literature and visual art indigenista? What is the relationship between indigenista art, revolution and the nation? How do we examine indigenismo... |
| ILAC269 | Realismo Mágico vs. Real Maravilloso | Two important concepts and theories realismo mágico and lo Real maravilloso have given sense and substance to Latin American literature during the last three decades. This course will focus on those concepts and on the works of Garcia Marquez and Ale... |
| ILAC272 | New Brazilian Cinema | This course studies cinema from Brazil with a focus on films from the last decade. We will consider how to effectively talk and write about film, particularly according to Brazil's specific historical and cultural context and from a perspective of so... |
| ILAC277 | Senior Seminar: Horror, Gothic, and Fantasy in Spanish | In this course we delve into stories and film where realism is put to the test. From vampires in Havana to mysterious children in Buenos Aires, we work with a constellation of writers who shape minor genres into masterpieces. We'll map the ways in wh... |
| ILAC278A | Senior Seminar: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Bilingual Reading | This course, open to all, follows a Great Books approach to Gabriel García Márquez's opus One Hundred Years of Solitude. Over the course of ten weeks, we will study this singular work attending to structural, intertextual, and contextual elements, si... |
| ILAC281E | Peripheral Dreams: The Art and Literature of Miró, Dalí, and other Surrealists in Catalonia | Why was Salvador Dalí fascinated with the architecture of Gaudí? Why did André Breton, Paul Éluard and Federico García Lorca visit Barcelona? Moreover, why did Catalonia become such an important cradle for Surrealism? Why is the (Catalan) landscape s... |
| ILAC299 | Individual Work | Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit. |
| ILAC303 | Topics of: Early Modern Theories of History | From the 15th to the 17th centuries, European expansion projects, especially the Iberian ones, prompted new constructions of the past, present, and future. This proliferation of history writing was complicated by the fact that the various populations... |
| ILAC305 | The Power of Myth | Is myth a form of thought or is it that which opposes thinking? How does myth create worldviews and engage the emotions? Is myth a universal language or is it a set of cultural dialects? In this seminar myth will be approached from several directions... |
| ILAC311 | Existentialism, from Moral Quest to Novelistic Form | This seminar intends to follow the development of Existentialism from its genesis to its literary expressions in the European postwar. The notions of defining commitment, of moral ambiguity, the project of the self, and the critique of humanism will... |
| ILAC312A | Desiring Machines: Buildings, Maps, and Clouds | Focus is on early modern machines as tools for experience and action. In their break with Freudian psychoanalysis, French theorists Deleuze and Guattari speak of the machine as a tool of desire and attraction itself as "machinic" rather than desire f... |
| ILAC314 | Colonial Mexico: Images and Power | How did images maintain, construct, or transform political power during the conquest and colonization of Mexico? The creation and destruction of visual materials in this period had a complicated relationship with power. The pictographic codices that... |
| ILAC318 | Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature | This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion. The course begins with sea-dom... |
| ILAC319 | Lusophone Africa | Focus on representative authors and works of modern Lusophone African literature (the literatures of Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe) as well as relevant work in post-colonial theory. Students may take the cours... |
| ILAC320E | Renaissance Africa | Literature, art, and culture in Central/Southern Africa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasis on forms of exchange between Europeans and Africans in the Kingdom of Kongo and Angola. Readings in Portuguese and English. Taught in Eng... |
| ILAC321 | Aljamiado Literature: Crypto-Muslim Culture in Early Modern Iberia | The history, culture, and literature of minority Muslim communities in Spain and Portugal from 1492 to the Morisco expulsions of 1609-14. Topics include: Islam and the West; Religious minorities in Europe; Inquisition and resistance; Gender and Islam... |
| ILAC323 | Transatlantic Methodologies | Focus is on the practice of transatlantic studies in primarily, but not exclusively hispanophone fields. Emphasis on nineteenth century, with attention to critical work spanning colonial to contemporary periods. Students are expected to survey a vari... |
| ILAC334A | Concepts of Modernity I: Nihilism | In the 1885 Preface to his unfinished work The Will to Power, Nietzsche declared: "For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving as toward a catastrophe, restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that... |
| ILAC336 | One World or Many? Representing Distance, Time, and Place in Iberian Expansion | The travelers, missionaries, and historians that reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Could the New World, unknown to the ancients, be enti... |
| ILAC342 | Meat | "Carne" mistranslates as "meat," "Körper," or "chair." Does the word codify into language a certain culturally specific experience of the body and its mediation with nature? In which ways does "flesh" subordinate nonhumans? How does the theme of meat... |
| ILAC345 | Ese íntimo desconocido. Imagen y experiencia íntima. | El trabajo de este mini-seminario se acerca al concepto de lo íntimo como lo más próximo, lo más interior y a la vez lo más exterior a uno, una suerte de interior/exterior que organiza al sujeto desde su radical ominosidad (lo des-familiar y lo ex-pr... |
| ILAC347 | Early Modern Iberian Lyric Poetry | Focused analysis of lyric poetry in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Readings include poems by Ausiàs March, el marqués de Santillana, Bernardim Ribeiro, Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Garcilaso de l... |
| ILAC348 | US-Mexico Border Fictions: Writing La Frontera, Tearing Down the Wall | A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome, crossed, and cursed; motivates bodies to climb over walls; and threatens physical harm. This graduate seminar places into comparative dialogue a variety of perspectives from C... |
| ILAC350 | Roberto Bolaño's 2666 | Roberto Bolaño's 2666 raises questions about the representability of sovereignty, neoliberalism, gender violence, and globalization. An unlikely global classic, it has become a de rigueur referent in contemporary literary studies. Graduate students t... |
| ILAC351 | Iberian Expansion Through the Looking Glass: One World or Many? | The conquerors, missionaries, and historians who reflected on Iberian overseas expansion during the early modern period often asked themselves a crucial question: was there only one world or many? Were the Americas a 'New World,' unknown to the ancie... |
| ILAC355 | Women and Wolves in Film and Literature | This course deconstructs the foundational narrative that corrals women into capitalist patriarchy, together with animals. Paying close attention to interspecies bonds between canidae and homo sapiens, we study novels and films where women, wolves an... |
| ILAC366 | Topics of: The Yellow-Brick Road to the Spanish Nation-State | Nation states arise historically with the transfer of rule from the king to the people, which becomes depository of the general interest. But the old patrimonial state included different peoples, some of which continued to have their own constitution... |
| ILAC367E | Contemporary Theory Lab | This new graduate seminar examines the question of whether a new canon of theoretical monographs-as opposed to influential standalone essays or papers-has coalesced in recent years. We focus on a post-Foucaultian, post-1989 moment, understanding theo... |
| ILAC371 | Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography | Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research. |
| ILAC373 | Baroque Brazil | In this course we will read texts from and about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Brazil, with special emphasis on the baroque aesthetic in literature, art, and music. Authors include António Vieira; Gregório de Matos; Bento Teixeira; Sebastião da... |
| ILAC399 | Individual Work | For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
| ILAC680 | Curricular Practical Training | CPT course required for international students completing degree. Prerequisite: Comparative Literature Ph.D. candidate. |
| ILAC801 | TGR Project | No Description Set |
| ILAC802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |