My teaching at the undergraduate level has evolved from more traditional offerings defined by period and genre to topics-based courses that enable me to connect colonial, early modern and eighteenth-century literary and cultural production with areas of contemporary concern — nature, environment and sustainability; health and medicine; family; the humanities and life-long learning; and citizenship and belonging. I have also developed courses that are taught in English both to reach a non-Spanish speaking student audience and to engage first-generation Latinx students who have often not had an opportunity to take courses in Spanish. In both cases, my courses open a door to future study.
SPAN 150 A New Hispanic Canon: Great Works in Translation
SPAN 190 Citizenship and Belonging in the Hispanic World
SPAN 217 Spanish for Health and Medicine (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 300 Introduction to Hispanic Cultural History (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 301 Early Hispanic Texts and Contexts (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 318 Vida en obras (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 318 In Sickness and in Health (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 485 Nature in the New World (taught in Spanish)
Nature in the New World
Mestizajes
Transatlantic Epistolary (co-taught with Hazel Gold)
Narrators, Chroniclers and Historians of Colonial Spanish America
The Question of the Other in Colonial Latin American Studies
Writing and Re-Writing 1492: Colonial Historiography and the Latin American Novel
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Problems of the Colonial Baroque
Critical Issues in Colonial Studies
(Re)Considering the Eighteenth Century in Spanish America
Understanding Hispanic Studies: Theories and Methods (co-taught with Donald Tuten)
Hispanic Studies Research and Writing Workshop
Public Humanities (co-taught with Benjamin Reiss, English; and with Vialla Hartfield-Méndez)
Themes and Approaches in Latin American History: Big Narratives and Digital Innovations (co-taught with Yanna Yannakakis, History)
Themes and Approaches in Latin American History: The Biographical Turn (co-taught with Yanna Yannakakis, History)
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