Spanish (SPAN-GA)

This course is designed to give you the skills necessary to conduct research in Spanish. It will focus on reading knowledge of the language only. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Classes will be conducted in English and the readings will be tailored toward individual student research needs.

Provides a theoretical foundation and practical experience for teaching Spanish to English speakers at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. Divided into three segments: comparative study of basic structures of Spanish and English as related to teaching Spanish grammar, classroom techniques, and contrastive phonology.

During this program of guided reading and research reports, taken in the second semester of the second year, students work with their future dissertation advisors to start to shape up a dissertation topic and prepare for the Comprehensive Evaluation.

During this program of guided reading and research reports, taken in the second semester of the second year, students work with their future dissertation advisors to start to shape up a dissertation topic and prepare for the Comprehensive Evaluation.

This course is taken in the Spring Semester of Year 1. It provides training in the following academic writing skills: writing an academic CV; writing a funding application; writing a conference paper.

This course is taken in the Spring Semester of Year 2. It follows on from Professional Writing Practices I, taken in Year 1, by providing a preparation in the following academic writing skills: writing a syllabus and submitting an article to an academic journal. The preparation in writing a syllabus will build on your classroom experience as language course instructors in your second year, as well as preparing you for your Comprehensive Exams in Fall of Year, which include producing a teaching list based on 2-3 syllabi. You will be encouraged to submit one or more articles to academic journals from your third year, so that you have a promising publication portfolio by the time you go on the job market in year 5 or 6.

This course interrogates the notion of the “archive” that has been radically opened up by activists, archivists, and scholars in recent decades. This includes, among other things, grassroots activism, radical historiographies, embodied methodologies, oral histories, cultural ephemera, film and photography, pornography, art and performance. As we explore the ways in which archives are often symbolic colonizing and nationalist projects, we will also think about how archives and documentary collections become sites of activism. We will also analyze colonial archives, alternative literacies, digital archives and processes of digitization, access to archives, embodied research methodologies, the body as archive, oral histories, LGBT/queer archives, and other public memory projects. How do some archival narratives privilege models of historical subject recovery, such that they purport to recuperate (and define) particular voices and subjectivities of the past? How do such archival engagements reassert and/or rupture traditional notions of archival authority? How are archives mediated spaces, and how do archival voices undergo several stages of transmission and filtering? Through the course, we will elucidate “affective archival encounters,” as influenced by language, race, ethnicity, gender, age, and subject of research. We will also examine the specific ways in which particular desires—archival, historical, and political—serve to inform the logics, subjects, and erasures of archives. As such, a significant component of this course will be our own personal and intellectual engagements with archives and the documents they house. The course will likely include scheduled visits to two or three archival collections in New York City, such as the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the Fales Library and Special Collections, the NYU Hemispheric Institute archive, the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division (and their Gay and Lesbian Collection), and the Hispanic Society of America’s Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection.

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Topics vary by semester

Workshop to direct students toward the basic approaches and structure of the future dissertation, with the goal of writing a finished proposal.

An introductory course, combining readings of writers? reflections on writing with readings in literary theory and criticism. Visiting Spanish, Latin American and Latino writers are invited regularly to lecture in the course. Required for all students. Taught once a year

The course assumes some familiarity with major fiction writers in Spanish. Students will discuss fiction and non-fiction techniques in relation to assigned readings and explore various aspects of prose writing, including memoir, literary journalism, journals, and essays. Required for all students. Taught once a year.

This class introduces students to the craft of writing poetry through readings of Spanish and Latin American poets, encourages them to reflect on that poetry and to discover in it possibilities for their own writing. Required for all students.

Students develop their skills in writing short and long fiction by submitting weekly exercises and working on a final project for the semester.

Students develop their skills in writing poetry (short and long poems, prose poems, documentary poetry, classical and avant-garde pieces) by submitting weekly exercises and working on a final project for the semester.

Students develop their skills in non-fiction (personal essay, chronicle, testimony, literary journal, hybrid pieces) by submitting weekly exercises and working on a final project for the semester.

Students develop their skills in literary translation from any genre, by submitting weekly exercises and working on a final project for the semester. Projects can be presented in the following languages: English into Spanish, Spanish into English, French into Spanish, and Portuguese into Spanish.

Students develop their skills in in a specified writing form by submitting weekly exercises and working on a final project for the semester.