Teaching – coldhearted scientist وداد

Spanish American Literature in Translation? Or Latin American? Including Brazil, or not?

04/05/2021

El reino de este mundo will be the first and oldest text. Everything else will be short, but interesting, from a different country. That is the foundation, and everything else is later; I should do something actually Afro-Latin to go with REM. Other texts I am thinking about having, for narrative, are Pedro Páramo, Crónica … More Spanish American Literature in Translation? Or Latin American? Including Brazil, or not?

Ya no estoy aquí, and deep reading

22/03/2021

Deep reading. And a trenchant critique of the film in question. Axé.

Buster Keaton

14/03/2021

Here is a Buster Keaton post. I might imitate these activities in class. Either now of in the fall. Axé.

Borges

04/12/2020

I must find that Borges quotation, on the pleasure of reading, for my course. Axé.

Online and remote courses

15/10/2020

Things I thought about during the summer: “Flip” it all: start out the semester online and finish in person, have office hours during class hours and asynchronous assignments, have office hours online and hangouts in person. “Teams,” for reasons I forget, does not work, you should use Moodle. Think of what your goals are, work … More Online and remote courses

Guerra neoliberal

30/07/2020

Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México. The complete book. Axé.

Another great course in comparative literature

22/07/2020

You would study El reino de este mundo, Changó, el gran putas (which is also about the Haitian revolution but by an actual Afro-Latin author), and Haitian material, and Louisiana material on Mackandal. (I wish I could teach classes like that. A colleague said: “I am glad this is my retirement job, because if it … More Another great course in comparative literature

Plague course

13/07/2020

Best books for COVID-19 class — what would you add? 1. Boccaccio / Decameron — some say just first chapter 2. Camus / La peste 3. Mann / The magic mountain 4. Mann / Death in Venice 5. Anon. / Nibelungenlied (Bary, Chataeva) 6. GGM / Love in the time of cholera (Chataeva likes it) … More Plague course

Reading stories like an underdog

06/05/2020

This is an important little piece to read. And I want this book Global Raciality, but not at its price. I wish we had a library, and that it kept up with things. They have it at LSU-S and I should get it by interlibrary loan. And finally, I have always admired this article on … More Reading stories like an underdog

Film on the Spanish Civil War

04/03/2020

What would you teach for this? (Side note: McClennen’s Globalization and Latin American Cinema costs hundreds of dollars; if not, I might use it as a textbook for a different film course.) La lengua de las mariposas – Raza – Dragón rapide/Encontrarás dragones – Cría cuervos – ¡Ay Carmela! – Land and freedom – El … More Film on the Spanish Civil War

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Writing in Memory of Paulo Freire

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