Courses Taken - Graduate


Major Area: 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Spanish Literature and Culture

The University of Arizona (PhD)

Montclair State University (MA)

  • Spanish Narrative from Modernity to the New Millennium
  • Spanish Contemporary Theater (Transition Era)
  • Science and Imagination in the Spanish Novel at the End of the 18th Century
  • The Making of the Spanish National Identity
  • Film Narrative and the Construction of Democracy in Spain
  • Research: Doctoral Dissertation (El guión cinematográfico como pre-texto literario. La obra de Rafael Azcona).
    Directed by Dr. Malcom Compitello
  • Realism in Spain
  • Contemporary Spanish Theater
  • Spanish Fiction and Film
  • Contemporary Spanish Poetry
  • Research: Master's Thesis (Silencio y rebelión en el teatro histórico de Antonio Buero Vallejo). Directed by Dr. Linda G. Levine.

Secondary Area 1: 13th trough 17th Century Spanish Literature 

The University of Arizona (PhD)

Montclair State University (MA)

  • The Comedia and Cultural Poetics in the Golden Age
  • Medieval Poetry
  • Picaresca Novel
  • Golden Age Theater
  • Medieval Literature
  • Cervantes

Secondary Area 2: 19th and 20th Century Spanish American Literature 

The University of Arizona (PhD)

Montclair State University (MA)

  • Spanish American Novel from the 19th Century to the Present
  • Mexican and Mexican American Contemporary Theater
  • Mexican and Mexican American Film
  • Contemporary Spanish Poetry
  • Modernism in Spanish America
  • Contemporary Spanish American Short Story

Electives

The University of Arizona (PhD)

Montclair State University (MA)

  • Foreign Language Teaching: Theory and Methodology
  • Introduction to Hispanic Studies
  • Hispanic Linguistic (Theater Translation)
  • Introduction to Literary Theories
  • Colonial Spanish American Literature
  • History of the Spanish Language