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SPAN 5220/7220: Spanish American Literature, 20th/21st Century, Thursday 3:30-6:05, Juan Herrero-Senés
Social changes and challenges through the lens of modernist antirealist fiction
This seminar will study how different forms of anti-mimetic fiction produced in Spain between 1870 and 1939 addressed significant changes and challenges related to gender, social structure, geopolitics, or the destiny of civilization. The course will include fictions produced within the realms of science fiction, the fantastic, the avant-garde and comic form.

SPAN 5300/7300: Span-Amer Lit Colonial/19th Century, TTH 2:00 - 3:15pm, Andrés Prieto
Confession, Memoir, and Autobiography in Colonial Latin America
This seminar investigates the emergence and impact of first-person narratives in Colonial Latin America, with a focus on confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies written by conquistadors, women, and Indigenous writers. These texts illuminate how individuals navigated the complexities of colonial society to construct personal and collective identities. Special attention is given to how gender, race, and social class influenced self-representation and the negotiation of power.

Key works include Indigenous accounts like Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s El Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, the autobiography of Catalina de Erauso (La Monja Alférez), and confessional texts shaped by Counter-Reformation ideologies, such as Úrsula Suárez’s autobiography or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s “Carta-respuesta.” By examining these narratives, the course explores how gender roles and expectations shaped the ways men and women presented their lives, with women often positioning themselves within religious discourses to claim authority or negotiate autonomy. Indigenous and mestizo voices reveal additional layers of negotiation, confronting the intersectionality of gender and racial colonial hierarchies.

Through a multidisciplinary framework that incorporates literary analysis, gender theory, and colonial historiography, students will examine how these texts articulate resistance, compliance, and innovation within the constraints of colonial systems. Discussions will interrogate the tension between self-expression and societal expectations, revealing how these narratives contributed to the construction of gendered identities in the colonial context.

SPAN 5650: Methods of Teaching Spanish, MWF 9:05 - 9:55, Anne Becher
Familiarizes students with current methodology and techniques in foreign language teaching. Peer-teaching coupled with opportunity to teach mini-lessons provide students with actual teaching experience in the foreign language classroom.

SPAN 5320/7320: Seminar: Spanish American Literature, 20th and/or 21st Centuries, Wednesday 3:30-6:05, Élika Ortega Guzmán
Experimental Media Poetics
Like the avantgarde movements of the early twentieth century, experimental and media poetics from the 1950s to the present have also been interested in the interrogation of meaning making mechanisms as political engagement with verbal and non-verbal representation. In Latin America, media and experimental poetics have flourished across a variety of organized movements like Concretism as well as independently within writers’ general oeuvre. Instances of experimental and media poetics have been produced in very diverse media: from print and the typewriter, to bookmaking, video, sound, and digital media. In this seminar we will investigate the world of literary-artistic production experimenting with materiality and mediality as the means of signification beyond text through theoretical frameworks including transmediality, intermediality, image-text, among others. Readings include poems, books, and novels by artists-writers-poets Eugene Gomringer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Ulises Carrión, Octavio Paz, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ana María Uribe, Vivian Abenshushan, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, and others. Students may choose to work in conventional research papers or in research-based practice projects.

SPAN 5430/7430: Seminar: Hispanic Linguistics, Tuesday 3:30-6:05, Javier Rivas
Usage-Based Spanish Syntax
Syntax is concerned with the ways in which words combine forming higher linguistic units such as phrases and sentences. The purpose of this seminar is to provide an account of the syntax of Spanish following a usage-based approach. In this theoretical framework, language is understood as an interactional, and hence communicative and social, activity. Grammar is a network of structures going from more lexically specific to highly schematic units that emerge from the repetition of local usage patterns. Consequently, frequency plays a critical role in the creation of syntactic structures. In addition, unlike in structuralist approaches, syntax is not considered as autonomous but motivated by cognitive and communicative patterns such as information packaging, iconicity and economy. Considering these tenets, we will provide a usage-based approach to syntactic categories (subject, direct object, indirect object) and constructions as well as other closely related syntactic phenomena such as argument structure, transitivity, and complementation.