Teaching
Spring 2011 Schedule:
SPAN1501 Intermediate Spanish I
TF10:00-11:15
Office hours: W 10:00-11:15
Other courses taught:
Most of my courses are cross-listed under Latin American/Latino Studies
SPAN3570 Stories of a New World
SPAN3560 Reimagining the Colonies
SPAN3550 Expressing the Colonies
SPAN3500 El (Des)cubrimiento de América
SPAN3250 God, Gold and Glory
SPAN3210 Transatlantic Picaresque
SPAN3052 Survey of Spanish American Literature
SPAN2500 Approaches to Literature
SPAN2001 Spanish Language and Literature
SPAN1501 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN1002 Introduction to Spanish II
MLRU1250 Traditions of Storytelling
SPAN3570 Stories of a New World
Panorama of the first three centuries of Spanish American literature. Narratives, poems, and letters by conquistadors, priests, sailors, nuns, nobles, commoners, indigenous, creoles, and Spaniards.
SPAN3560 Re-imagining the Colonies: 20th Century Historical Fiction
Study of modern Latin American historical fiction (novels and short stories) set in the colonial period. Exploration of the factors that inform contemporary authors’ literary imaginations as they envision and recreate this crucial period in Latin American history.
SPAN3550 Expressing the Colonies
This course will consider Colonial texts following the age of discovery and conquest. Exploration of Sor Juana, el Inca Garcilaso, Balbuena, Vázquez de Espinosa, and others will seek to identify how the writings contributed to the expression of the newly established colonies and institutions.
SPAN3500 Literature of (Dis)covery
In-depth examination of four essential chroniclers of Spanish-American discovery: Colón, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortés, and las Casas. Exploration of the concept of discovery, supported by study of several foremost critics of colonial literature.
SPAN3250 God, Gold, and Glory: Visions of the Conquest
In-depth examination of Colonial narratives of exploration and conquest. Comparative study of text and film representations of this powerful moment of Spanish imperialism.
SPAN3210 The Transatlantic Picaresque
Exploration of the origins of this uniquely entertaining genre, its most exemplary manifestations in Spain, and its transatlantic resonance in the New World. Texts include Lazarillo de Tormes, El Buscón, Don Catrín de la Fachenda, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes, and others.
SPAN3052 Survey of Spanish-American Literature
Major developments in Spanish American literature from the Colonial period to the 20th century. Representative works from various genres and their cultural contexts will be examined.