A Highlight of Fall 2022 Courses

This course focuses on the audiovisual representation of Latinx in the United States and the politics behind those representations. From Carmen Miranda to Selena and Jennifer Lopez, from the films of Robert Rodríguez to the productions of Lin Manuel Miranda, including works by contemporary visual and performance artists, the course discusses the representation of the Latinx identities and sociopolitical issues by both Hollywood and independent Latinx filmmakers and visual artists.

From malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS to polio, Zika, tobacco-related cancer and COVID, this course aims to explore the interplay between culture, society, politics and biomedicine in the historical construction of diseases in the modern world. Emphasis will be placed on Latin America, but the course will also include the examination of European, African, Asian, and North American cases.

This course focuses on contemporary Central American literature. It begins with the revolutionary poetry, narrative of resistance, and testimony that emerged out of the sociopolitical turmoil of the isthmus during the decades of war, resolutions, and genocide.

This course focuses on the sociopolitical turmoil that devastated Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador as a wave of revolutionary wars swept across the region from the 1960s to the early 1990s and sought to end decades of oppressive military dictatorships.
This course focuses on the audiovisual representation of Latinx in the United States and the politics behind those representations. From Carmen Miranda to Selena and Jennifer Lopez, from the films of Robert Rodríguez to the productions of Lin Manuel Miranda, including works by contemporary visual and performance artists, the course discusses the representation of the Latinx identities and sociopolitical issues by both Hollywood and independent Latinx filmmakers and visual artists.