This course aims to explore different forms that the question of liberation has taken in writings by women philosophers and poets whose work helped to create cultural and political movements in the U.S. and Latin America. Starting in the 1960s, the course touches upon different philosophical concepts and poetic figures that have shaped the language of women's struggles (intersectionality, black and third world feminism, subalternity and feminist epistemologies, capitalist accumulation and "witch"-hunting, (re)transmission of knowledge).
COM 542 / GSS 542 / SPA 558 / LAS 512
Feminist Poetics and Politics in the Americas (1960s to the present)
Professor/Instructor
Susana DraperARC 594 / MOD 504 / HUM 593 / ART 584 / SPA 559
Topics in Architecture
Professor/Instructor
Spyros PapapetrosThis course covers various topics related to the history and theory of architecture.
SPA 562 / LAS 542 / HUM 562
The Cinema of Cruelty
Professor/Instructor
Javier Enrique GuerreroDrawing on Antonin Artaud's ideas around theatre of cruelty and André Bazin's notions of auteur film and its subversive capacity, this course looks at a group of Latin American and Spanish films and directors to explore how cruelty has become a recognizable aesthetic, one with strategic relevance for Hispanic film. This seminar understands film as a text in which cruelty functions as a cinematic trope, and also reflects on spectatorship, film's ability to inflict pain and, even more, the possibility that film constitutes a modern spectacle of cruelty.
SPA 583 / LAS 583
Seminar in Literary Theory
Professor/Instructor
Gabriela NouzeillesAn examination of the theoretical foundations of literary study, using selected literary and critical texts.