Pavel Andrade

Undergraduate / Latin American Studies Course Description How has cultural production animated the Latin American revolutionary imagination? How have art, literature, and film accompanied radical processes of social transformation and helped expand the horizons of utopianism in Latin America? How does art help us conceive, model, and build something different than what already exists? Focusing on three key moments of…

Graduate / Literary Theory Course Description This course offers an introduction to modern and contemporary literary theory. Throughout the semester, students will familiarize themselves with different schools and methods of literary criticism, as well as some of the theories, ideas, and debates that have shaped the notion of the aesthetic from the late nineteenth century to the present. We will…

Undergraduate / Mexican Studies Course Description Wake up, go to work, feed the dog, cook dinner, watch TV, doomscroll, do the social media thing, go to bed, repeat. Everydayness is iterative, conspicuously boring, monotonous to the point of irritation; its regularity, however, often reveals the pervasiveness of power relations and social antagonisms. In this course, we will study how cultural…

Graduate / Mexican Studies Description This seminar studies the Mexican novel in its encounters with global capitalism and neoliberalization. Focusing on two corpora of contemporary Mexican literature, Onda and Crack, we will examine the capabilities of the novel form to periodize transition, crisis, unevenness, scarcity, and adjustment. We will consider how, in the aftermath of 1968, Onda and Crack novels…

Undergraduate / Latin American Studies Course Description This course offers an overview of Latin America’s cultural history from the colonial period to the contemporary era. Interdisciplinary in methods and scope, this course incorporates Latin American studies and literary and cultural theory to approach some of the key socioeconomic processes that have shaped the past and present of Latin American societies.…

Graduate / Mexican Studies Course Description In this seminar we will study the Mexican novel through the analytical convergence of literary formalism, aesthetic theory, and geocriticism. We will consider how the spatial imagination of the Mexican novel bespeaks the changing motions of sociality from the 1960s to the present. From style, composition, and plot to cognitive mapping, uneven development, and…