Fall 2026

“What is love (baby don’t hurt me)?” pop culture keeps asking; in Latin America, one answer has long come in the form of tears, melodrama, and serialized romance. In the 1960s, the romance‑comic series Lágrimas, risas y amor promised its readers an...

Introducción a la historia de la lengua española desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Escarceos en lingüística histórica en el marco de la historia literaria y el estudio comparado de las lenguas románicas. Acercamiento interdisciplinario.

Through close readings and translations centering on 20th-century Spanish history and society, students hone their linguistic, grammatical, and stylistic skills, and acquire the interpretive skills required to comprehend and analyze increasingly complex...

What is the place of the human within nature? How are cultural concepts of what is ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ reflected in and shaped by texts from different periods? Where do our ideas about ecology and climate today have their roots? How can a text, or a...

This course presents a diverse set of literary and cultural materials that will help understand Spain’s frequently contested Modernity. The guiding topic of discussion will be the conflicting definitions of Spanish national identity from the 18th to the...

What voices can we hear in pre-modern literature? How did literary forms (the novel, tragic drama, lyric poetry) emerge or evolve over the course of several centuries? In this class, we will examine a wide range of texts from the 12th to the 18th...

Comic Relief focuses on fictional works in French which use humor to dorer la pilule , or make more palatable, the social ills and political dangers they reveal. With naïfs and rebellious women as protagonists, these coming-of-age stories raise questions...