Selected Spanish Coursework

The Latin American and Spanish Documentary Film from its Beginnings Until Today (graduate seminar)
- Final paper topic: United States interventions in Tómas Gutiérrez Alea’s Memorias del Subdesarrollo
(Re)Visions of the Colonial Past in Contemporary Latin American Culture (graduate seminar)
- Final paper topic: Piracy as seen in Esquemeling and as (re)imagined by Carmen Boullosa
Imagining Moorish Spain (graduate seminar)
- Final paper topic: Race, Orientalism, and Social Class in Diego Ximénez de Enciso’s Juan Latino.
Independent study: 19th century Spanish American literature
- Final project: Annotated bibliography, major works of 19th century Latin American literature
The Franco Period in the First Person: Autobiographies from Spanish Women Writers, 1939-1975
Medieval Boundaries: Space, Hierarchy, and Genre in the Medieval Mediterranean
- Final paper topic: Parodying of the Male Lover in the Courtly Tradition in Libro de Buen Amor and La Celestina: Love in a Time of Parody: The Arcipreste, Calisto, and the Parodying of the Male Lover in the Courtly Tradition in Libro de Buen Amor and La Celestina
Geographies of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America
- Final project: Madre María de San José and feminine space
Theory of Literature
Proseminar for Language Teaching
MA exam areas of concentration:
- Colonial Spanish American literatures
- Medieval (Spain)
- Spanish American Literature, 1898-present