Guerra neoliberal
30/07/2020
Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México. The complete book. Axé.
Category: Teaching
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
The edge of democracy
26/12/2019
It is a film by Petra Costa about Bolsonaro and it is opening in San Francisco January 5, although it is almost a year old and is apparently available on Netflix already. Apparently it is very important and we should show it in class if there is any way to justify doing something in Portuguese. … More The edge of democracy
US Latinos writing in Spanish
14/12/2019
This is another hip course I could give, at an advanced level, with a baby-level that would be a freshman seminar. SPANISH language writing would be the topic, we wouldn’t work on English language writing, or read a lot of Spanglish. Algunos nombres: Elizabeth Acevedo (“The Poet X” se ha traducido al español), Gloria Anzaldúa, … More US Latinos writing in Spanish
Undergraduate and other research
20/11/2019
Here’s a good list of things people undertaking research, need and should do: 1. have knowledge of what a research question is; 2. have basic subject knowledge in a chosen topic area, e.g., its major research questions; 3. develop a capacity for being interested in questions where the answer is nonobvious; 4. have the ability to … More Undergraduate and other research
Para una clase de cultura más avanzada
08/11/2019
If I think it should be a junior level course, it should be senior / early graduate. This one would be on monuments. Each monument studied would lead to the study of many related things, and one would study their processes of fetichization (I have not worked this out very well yet). Some of the … More Para una clase de cultura más avanzada
Martí and Lorca in New York
02/11/2019
That is a class one could give, and discuss modernity. Or it could be a broader course, with Baudelaire in Paris, and more: writers in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Petrograd. Maybe I can make all my courses like this now. Axé.
