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Examination of films from Spain, Mexico, and Latina/o USA that expand, trouble, contest, parody, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Sayles, Maria Novaro, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gregory Nava.

Praised by Woody Allen and Salman Rushdie as the greatest Brazilian novelist of the 19th Century, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) became a recent pop star of "world literature." To Harold Bloom he is "a kind of miracle ," as the grandson of freed slaves in Brazil, who deserved to be included in Bloom's book Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. In his texts, a paradoxical combination of guilt and innocence, jealous and love challenges the reader to make risk choices wisely. This course presents Machado de Assis masterpieces: the novels, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881), and Dom Casmurro (1900), the short novel The Alienist (1882) and a selection of his short stories. Key critical concepts and an overview of his reception in Brazil and in the US will support our discussions.

The influence of classic American film noir (Hitchcock, Lang, Huston, Welles etc.) on works by some of Iberia's most successful contemporary novelists including Antonio Muñoz Molina, Juan Marsé, Rosa Montero, José Cardoso Pires and Albert Sánchez Piñol. Supplementary works include reading from the Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro as well as works by Emmanuel Levinas, Dominique LaCapra, Carl Jung, Kenneth Burns and others. Readings in Spanish and English.

Strategies and tactics for research and writing in the humanities; focus is on the Spanish-speaking world. Objectives: how to write a funding proposal; how to conduct research online and in the library; annotated bibliographies; literature reviews; a book review; primary research and archive skills. Students will learn how to conduct research in Iberian and Latin American Studies, improve their written skills and learn how to think in the discipline. The emphasis of the course is on skill-building while exploring topics of interest to each student. (Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement)

Proposes a space of articulation between theoretical reflection and analytical practice that allows to address, from language, the symbolic plot of the constitution of subjects and identities in diverse auto/biographical registers--texts, images, representations, testimonies, narratives; the affirmation of their voices: the search for senses, memories and values. Through a trans-disciplinary perspective, prominence will be given to cultural objects, debates and issues of great relevance in the current Latin American scene.

A growing number of contemporary Latin American novels and films focus on precarious forms of life and narratives of care, beyond the disciplinary discourses of medicine and psychiatry. This course takes stock of these narratives to explore the literary dimension of care. Parting from theorizations of affect, we explore varieties of emotions, modes of care, and caring identities, as well as the emphasis on human-animal and human-plant relations. Authors and film directors may include: Mario Bellatin, Alejandro Zambra, Alan Pauls, Sergio Chejchec, Lina Meruane, Diamela Eltit, Mario Cohn, Gaston Dupratt, Lucrecia Martel. Taught in Spanish

A comparison between the different roles played by writers as members of the intellectual establishment in Catalonia, Spain and Italy. Focus on the relation between intellectuals and politics in shaping national identity. We will give especially consideration to the role played by intellectuals during the Fascist and Francoist dictatorships and during Spain's transition to democracy. Taught in English.

An exploration of memory of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath in contemporary Iberian literature and cinema. Focus will be on the examination of the most important events of 20th Century Spain through the analysis of novels, short stories, testimonial texts, documentaries, and feature films that attempt to recover the voices and memories of the victims: outcasts (guerrilla, refugees), women, and children.

The historical dynamics, linguistic plurality, and social complexity of the Iberian world. Topics include: empire, independence Civil war; republicanism; the crisis at the end of the century: the year 98; the civil war; dictatorships, Franco, and Salazar. Major figures include Larra, Esproceda, Béquer, Rosalía de Castro, Verdaguer, Galdós, Maragall, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and Lorca. Taught in Spanish.