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Dec 02

2012

Pastoral Seminar, Winter 2013

Next quarter I’m teaching a 200-level seminar (open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates) on Renaissance pastoral poetry and fiction. My plan isn’t to cover everything (impossible, in any case) but rather to move slightly beyond Iberian texts in terms of space and time. The focus is still primarily on Portuguese and Spanish texts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but we’ll look a bit at Latin and Italian source texts, along with some later American versions of the pastoral mode. Read more →

Oct 15

2012

Rhythm Seminar, Fall 2012

My next book focuses on a particular way of framing the question of rhythm. With origins in Pre-Socratic Greece, the notion of rhythm that interests me resurfaces in a conscious way more or less at the middle of the twentieth century (thanks largely to Émile Benveniste). Read more →

Oct 16

2011

ILAC 323: Renaissance Lit (Winter 2012)

I’ve managed to put together the syllabus for the graduate-level Humanities seminar I’m teaching next quarter through ILAC and the DLCL. I love this course, because in it we essentially read some of the greatest works of early modern literature and discuss them as a group. Shakespeare, Camões, More, Montaigne, Ronsard, Sor Juana, Petrarca, etc., all in ten weeks. It’s over too fast, but like skydiving, the trip is memorable. Read more →

Sep 27

2011

ILAC 215: Portugal, Empire, and Islam

This course, a 200-level seminar (open to both graduate students and advanced undergraduates), will focus on literature related to Portugal’s early modern empire in Muslim Africa and Asia. Authors include Luís de Camões, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Miguel de Castanhoso, Fernão Mendes Pinto, and João de Barros. Read more →