Representations of women are often defined by how men see women or by how society expects women to look and behave. Many representations of women focused on women's emotions and their sexuality. As a socially and historically defined group, images of women played a crucial role in defining Chinese modernity. In the class, we will mainly study the representation of women in late imperial and modern China, exploring feminine and feminist literary ideology.

An exploration of representations of “otherness” in Japanese literature and film from the mid-19th century until the present. How was (and is) Japan’s identity as a modern nation configured through representations of other nations and cultures? How are categories of race, gender, nationality, class and sexuality used in the construction of difference? This course pays special attention to the role of “otherness” in the development of national and individual identities.

Topics course.

This course has two principal aims: to develop public speaking and to enhance deeper understanding of repression, censorship and other forms of violence as they have made themselves felt in societies subject to dictatorship within the Spanish-speaking world. The objective is to give voice to that which has been silenced. Through multiple artistic means, visual and performing arts, including theater and music, we will reenact a past whose struggles remain unresolved, in order better to explain a conflicted present in today’s Spain and Latin America.

Topics course. May be repeated with a different topic.
Normally offered each fall: The protagonists of the cult "hist-fi" Spanish television series "El Ministerio del Tiempo" (2015-2018) travel through the Spanish past to make sure it does not change. We travel with them to learn Spanish language and society through the ages, and how and why History is presently told that way. It fulfills the History requirement for the Spanish Major. Enrollment limited to 15.

Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic.

Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic.

Same as WLT 178. This course focuses on fictional portraits of iconoclastic translators and/or interpreters. The first two months are devoted to a (relatively) “slow reading” of Don Quijote as a pioneer text in terms of attributing a central role to a fictional translator. The third month is devoted to international films and short stories--largely, but not exclusively, from the Spanish-speaking world, which has experienced a remarkable upsurge of “transfictions” (i.e., fictions about translators) since the ‘90s. Taught in English.

This interdisciplinary course will consider the diverse histories, cultures, andexperiences of Indigenous individuals and peoples in Brazil, from the precolonialperiod into the present and including future oriented forms of Native activism andimagination.

A continuation of POR110. Development of conversational communication, listening comprehension, reading skills and cultural knowledge through a variety of materials. Prerequisite: POR 110 or permission of the instructor.