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PORTUGUESE 077 - Laughter and Disaster

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This course engages the twin lenses of the comic and the disastrous as modes of studying Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. We will consider how reactions to disastrous events and how creating comic scenarios in written texts and performance are...

FRENCH 218 - Plantations, Gardens, Forests: De/Colonial Ecologies

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In this course, we will explore the imbrication of colonialism and environmentalism by focusing on “green” spaces such as plantations; botanical gardens where plants were studied to be mass produced for empire’s profit; and green spaces such as safaris...

ITALIAN 238 - Alchemy and Literature

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Matter—pure potency, pure capacity for being—has consistently eluded humanity’s intellectual and experimental efforts. From the shores of Ningbo to the deserts of Los Alamos, though its names have changed, its essence remains the same. It is Hesiod’s...

SPANISH 080TS - Translating Boundaries in Modern Spain

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A follow-up course to Span 80T, Span 80TS continues our historical, social, cultural, literary, and linguistic journey through modern Spain by focusing on texts that foreground territorial and national debates. Through close readings and translations...

ROMANCE STUDIES 166 - Calvino and Computation

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The seminar is built around a sequence of fundamental questions regarding the literary disciplines and media studies, their history and epistemology. Discussions are instigated by readings in philology, stylistics, the history of ideas, semiotics...

SPANISH 070B - Hispanic Literature of the Golden Age

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Introduction to the genres of poetry, drama and narrative prose (fiction and non-fiction) of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. Close reading of representative texts with attention to the emerging literary languages of this period of national...

SPANISH 163 - Foundational Fiction and Film

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Through novels that helped to consolidate nation-states in Latin America, explores modernity as personal and public lessons in laissez-faire. Sequels in film, telenovelas, performances show tenacity of genre. Links between creativity and citizenship...

SPANISH 122 - Spanish Film from Buñuel to Almodóvar

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This course will examine a wide range of core Spanish films from directors such as Almodóvar, Amenábar, Berlanga, Bollaín, Buñuel, Coixet, Erice, and León de Aranoa, among others. It will include analyses of prominent genres (drama, comedy, terror...