Romance Studies

In this seminar we will study representations of urban experience, and how the evolution of cities has been shaped by writing. Each week will pair literary and planning texts from the 1860s onward. We will discuss shared aspirations and tense relations...

This course introduces students to a range of analytical and theoretical approaches to “reading” fiction, poetry, film, and essays. We will pair critical writings and creative texts of importance to the Romance world to help students develop their own...

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...

Beauty does not lie in the eye of the beholder, nor is it an inherent property of things; it is a tool for understanding that individuality and objectivity are not the only realities, and that more important than both is the social and distinctly human...

This course is designed for TFs and TAs in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures who are teaching a Romance language at Harvard for the first time, or those who are interested in foreign language learning and teaching. It introduces TAs and...

"Pedagogies of Liberation" is preparation and accompaniment for new teachers who teach (anything!). We read selected works by exemplary pedagogues: Friedrich Schiller, María Montessori, John Dewey, W.B. Du Bois, R. Tagore, Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, José...

This course introduces students to a range of analytical and theoretical approaches to “reading” fiction, poetry, film, and essays. We will pair critical writings and creative texts of importance to the Romance world to help students develop their own...

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...