Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 on sabbatical.

Course 1 Fall 2023
POW 4382 Brazilian Drama.This course is designed to teach students about the different origins, theories and dramatic traditions in Brazil (tragedy, melodrama, comedy, the religious “auto”), via works of the stage, television and film, within the context of the social and political culture of the period, including readings on the theater of cruelty, brechtian techniques of estrangement and epic theater, and the Brazil’s political theater, such as Arena, the “theater of the oppressed” and “Cinema novo.” Taught in Portuguese. T 4th, Th 4-5th .

Course 2
SPW 6902. Latin American Science Fiction. Taking a historical perspective and including a wide variety of texts 1870 to the present, this class traces Mexican and Brazilian speculative fiction as reaction to modernity through embodiment and resistance. Cyborg bodies, queer bodies, zombified and vampiric bodies offer resistance to the positivist ethos and provide an alternate perspective on rapid growth and modernity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the political and economic challenges they have brought. Emphasis will be placed on Mexican texts, culture and history. Taught in Spanish. T 5th-6th, Th 6th.