Josiah Blackmore

This course studies expressions of alternate sexualities in Iberia and Latin America. It includes a wide variety of literary genres over a chronological span that ranges from the Middle Ages to the present and engages with current discussions in gender...

This course explores the sea as a principle of literature, culture, and history in medieval and early modern Portugal and Brazil. It covers a broad range of textual genres and cultures of writing to understand how the sea, the oceanic, and the aquatic...

This course studies the literature of colonial Brazil. We will consider how texts and writing participate in empire and colonialism, and explore a range of primary texts that engage with the lands, resources, peoples, and legends of Brazil. We will also...

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...