Columbia SPPO

Courses Taught in Previous Semesters

FALL 2013

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / José Ruíz Campillo

"Microliteratures and Literacy" / Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco

"Mysticism and the Avant-Garde" / Alberto Medina

"Visions from Afar from Nearby" / Alessandra Russo

"East/West Frametale Narratives" / Patricia Grieve

"Supervised Individual Research" / Alberto Medina

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory" / Graciela Montaldo

 

SPRING 2013

"Muslim Spain: Literature and Society" / Alan Verskin

"Theories of Culture in Latin America" / Carlos J. Alonso

"Theories of Performance in the Americas" / Maja Horn

"Popular Culture and Racial Imagination: Brazil in the Americas (and Beyond)" / Marc Hertzman

"Performative Evidence: Art, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin America" / Joaquín Barriendos

"Secularism: The Boundaries of Religion in Early and Late Modernity" / Seth Kimmel

FALL 2012

"Spanish American Poetry" / Gustavo Pérez Firmat

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / José Ruiz Campillo

"New World Savants and Pedagogues " / Ronald Briggs

"Two Beginnings: Cinema/TV" / Alberto Medina

"Blood/Lust: Staging the Early Modern Mediterranean" / Patricia Grieve

"Barbarisms in Latin America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory" / Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco

SPRING 2012

"Crime and Culture in Modern Spain" / Wadda Ríos-Font

"Latin American Art as Global Art" /Joaquín Barriendo

"Fiction and Poesis" / Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco

"Society of Spectacle in Latin America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Marxists and Race Rebels: Intellectuals, Activists, and Ideologies in Brazil, Spanish America, and the U.S." / Marc Hertzman

FALL 2011

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory" / Carlos J. Alonso

"Remains of Gender, Technologies of Power" / Alberto Medina

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / José Ruiz-Campillo

"Romance in Medieval Spain" / Patricia Grieve

"Theories of the Arts in the Iberian Worlds" / Alessandra Russo

SPRING 2011

"Language Loyalty in Anglo-Hispanic Literature" / Gustavo Pérez-Firmat

"Codification and Writing of the Law" / Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco

"Cervantes and Early Modern Studies" / Dale Shuger

"Theories of Sexuality in the Americas" / Maja Horn

"Spanish American Modernismo and the Subject of Art" / Oscar Montero (Visiting)

FALL 2010

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / Juan P. Jimenez

"Language Loyalty in Anglo-Hispanic Literature" / Gustavo Pérez-Firmat

"Populism and Culture in Latin America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Mysticism and Avant-Guarde" / Alberto Medina

"East/West Frametale Narratives" / Patricia Grieve

SPRING 2010

"Medieval Iberian Saints" / Patricia Grieve

"Justice and Injustice in Premodern Spain" / Dale Shuger

"Post-Abolition Brazil" / César Braga Pinto

"The Avant-Garde and Mass Media" / Anke Birkenmaier

"Spanish Nationalism 1808-1898" / Wadda Ríos Font

"Visions from Afar, Visions from Nearby" / Alessandra Russo

FALL 2009

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo

"Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Latin America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Microliteratures: Writing on the Margins and the Location of Literacy" / Jesús Rodríguez Velasco

"Theories of Culture in Latin America" / Carlos J. Alonso

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory: Dialogues in Theory" / Alberto Medina

SPRING 2009

"Desire and Language" / Elizabeth Amman

"Post-revolutionary Cuba: Havana in Literature, Architecture, and the Arts" / Anke Birkenmaier

"The Neo-Baroque: A Trans-Atlantic Approach" / Alberto Medina

"Theory of the Arts in the Iberian Worlds" / Alessandra Russo

"Literature and Modernity in Rio's Belle Epoque" / Maite Conde

FALL 2008

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo

"Masses and Multitudes in the Spanish American 19th Century" / Graciela Montaldo

"The Spanish Novel of the 20th Century" / Gonzalo Sobejano

" Fictional Foundations: Puerto Rico and the Spanish Empire (1808-1898)" / Wadda Ríos-Font

"Material and Archival Culture" / Jesús Rodríguez Velasco

"Workshop in Scholarly Writing" / Carlos J. Alonso

SPRING 2008

"The World of Romance in Medieval Spain" / Patricia Grieve

"Writing the City / Walking the Text: Spatial and Textual Practices in Modern Spain" / Alberto Medina

"The Law of Desire: Eros, Gender, and History in Spanish Cinema" / Elizabeth Amann

"Colonial Creations: An Aesthetic History of Visual and Textual Experiences" / Alessandra Russo

"Tropics of Brazilian Culture" / Maite Conde

FALL 2007

"Literature and Economy in Restoration Spain" / Wadda Ríos-Font

"Fables of Identity: The Latin American Essay" / Carlos J. Alonso

"Spanish Poetry of the 16th Century" / Gonzalo Sobejano

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory" / Graciela Montaldo

"Spanish-American Poetry and Poetics" / Gustavo Pérez Firmat

"Didactics of Spanish Language and Culture" / Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo

SPRING 2007

"The Eve of Spain: Gender, Race, and National Identity” / Patricia Grieve

"Literature and Anthropology in Latin America” / Anke Birkenmaier

"Textual Culture of the Colonial Period” / Paul Firbas

"Modernism, Cannibalism and Mass Culture in Brazil” / Maite Conde

FALL 2006

"The Spanish Picaresque Novel" / Gonzalo Sobejano

"Theories of Culture in Latin America" / Carlos J. Alonso

"The Culture of Modernity in the Modern Spanish Essay" / Sarah Demeuse

"The Society of Spectacle: Literature, Media, and Visual Culture in Latin America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Crime and Culture in Modern Spain" / Wadda Ríos Font

SPRING 2006

"Libro de Buen Amor / Celestina" / Michael Agnew

"Novella: from Boccaccio to Cervantes" / Patricia Grieve

"El Boom and Its Precursors" / Alfred Mac Adam

"The Spanish Novel of the XXth Century" / Gonzalo Sobejano

FALL 2005

"Dandismo" / Elizabeth Amann

"Masses and Multitudes: the XIXth Century in Spanish America" / Graciela Montaldo

"Lope de Vega and Literary Genres" / Gonzalo Sobejano

"Seminar on Literary and Cultural Theory" / Carlos J. Alonso