Fall 2024 - Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
How Close Reading Made Us
Shows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.
Translating Global Ideas
Explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Expanding Cinemas
Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.
Brazilian Science Fiction Film
The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.