Columbia SPPO

Courses Taught in Previous Semesters

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

"Postrevolutionary 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

"La novela picaresca española" / Gonzalo Sobejano

"Teorías de la cultura latinoamericana" / Carlos J. Alonso

"Perplejidades y paradojas: la cultura de la modernidad y el ensayo español" / Sarah Demeuse

"La sociedad del espectáculo: literatura, medios y cultura visual en Latinoamérica" / Graciela Montaldo

"El crimen y la cultura en la España moderna" / Wadda Ríos Font

SPRING 2006

"Libro de Buen Amor / Celestina" / Michael Agnew

"Novella: de Boccaccio a Cervantes" / Patricia Grieve

"El Boom y sus precursores" / Alfred Mac Adam

"Novela española del siglo XX" / Gonzalo Sobejano

FALL 2005

"Dandismo" / Elizabeth Amann

"Masas y multitudes: el siglo XIX hispanoamericano" / Graciela Montaldo

"Lope de Vega y los géneros literarios" / Gonzalo Sobejano

"Seminario sobre teoría literaria y cultural" / Carlos J. Alonso