Topics in Latinx Studies: Latinx Literature and Visual Culture

Harvard FAS

This is a broad-based course that utilizes art and literature as political and historical tools of analysis. Students will be introduced to a variety of issues, debates, and methodologies which are central to Latinx studies. While engaging in a hands-on practice of self-inquiry and social critique, we will learn to model a comparative, intersectional, and transnational approach to study the work of influential Latinx writers, artists, and scholars. The class will facilitate contemporary…