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Media-Savvy Populism from Che to Chávez

Desde la Revolución Cubana hasta las presidencias del recién fallido Hugo Chávez y sus aliados en la América Latina actual, los movimientos políticos populistas han incorporado múltiples medios en sus Read More

The Legend of Don Juan

This course explores dramatic and filmic manifestations of the Don Juan theme, one of the most intriguing creations of Western culture. Don Juan is a literary figure with a legendary Read More

Contemporary Hispanic Fiction by Women

This course explores outstanding contemporary fiction by women writers from Spain and Latin America. From a gender-bending short story to a supernatural memoir to a gripping war novel, these works Read More

Don Quijote

This course explores Cervantes and Spain’s most famous and best known work. We will read the entire 2 volumes in this course, with a focus on the social and literary Read More

Elena González Sánchez

Elena González Sánchez is a Spanish Graduate Student from Cáceres, Spain. She graduated from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) in 2015 with a BA in Translation and Interpreting (English Read More

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Enlightenment & Romanticism

The graduate seminar is focused 100% on required readings from the 19th century Latin American and Peninsular areas of the MA reading list. Students will be able to claim it Read More

From Codex to Archives

This seminar will cover major works from the MA list on Colonial Literature for graduate students. The class will start by acknowledging pre-Hispanic literacy in the Mesoamerican Codex and move Read More

Masterpieces of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

This graduate seminar explores masterpieces of contemporary Spanish fiction and film, while asking: Why have certain works entered the cultural canon? What innovations defined them, and what reactions do they Read More

Masterpieces of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

This Honors seminar explores masterpieces of contemporary Spanish fiction and film, while asking: Why have certain works entered the cultural canon? What innovations defined them, and what reactions do they Read More

Culturas Digitales de América Latina y España

This course examines how new media forms have transformed culture in Latin America and Spain from the 20th to the 21st century, focusing on theoretical approaches to electronic media, as Read More