Post Covid Schedule:
Class Discussion: join the video chat through this Blackboard Collaborate link.
Group Discussion: links and instructions can be found on the Class Notes page.
March 19, Thursday – Class: Orientation, finish “Alma” close reading, no assignments due.
March 23, Monday – Class: “The Pura Principle” & “Invierno,” comment due, Rebekah & Kailani presenting, Desiree notetaking
March 26, Thursday – Group: discussion question due
RECALIBRATION
April 2, Thursday – Group: – “Miss Lora” & “The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” from The New Yorker, discussion question due
April 6, Monday – Class: “Miss Lora” & “The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” from TheNew Yorker, comment due, Samiha & Christina presenting, Samiha notetaking
April 9, Thursday night at midnight — Annotation 2 Due
SPRING BREAK
April 13, Monday – Class: “The Cheater’s Guide to Love” & “Junot Diaz, Feminism, Ethnicity” article, comment due, Maria Elena & Hector presenting, Tyeisha notetaking
April 16, Thursday – – Group: “The Cheater’s Guide to Love” & “Junot Diaz, Feminism, Ethnicity” article, discussion question due
April 20, Monday – Class: Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House I, comment due, Elizabeth E. & Jade presenting
April 23, Thursday – Group: discussion question due
April 27, Monday – Machado, ITDH II, comment due, Ana & Sandra C. presenting
April 30, Thursday – Group: workshop paper proposals
May 1, Friday, midnight – Paper Proposals Due
May 4, Monday – Class: Machado, ITDH III, comment due, Daniel & Xavier presenting
May 7, Thursday – Group: discussion question due
May 10, Sunday, midnight – First Draft Due
May 11, Monday – Class: Writing Day, bring first draft to class
May 14, Thursday – Group: Peer Review of Paper Draft
May 18, Monday — Final Meeting, discuss papers & goodbyes
May 21, Thursday at midnight: Final Paper Due
OLD SCHEDULE
Week 1
January 27, Monday – Introduction to the Course
January 30, Thursday – Ilan Stavans. “The Search for Wholeness” & Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Week 2
February 3, Monday – Borges, “The Library of Babel” & Clarice Lispector, “Family Ties”
February 6, Thursday – Ofelia Schutte. “Cultural Alterity: Cross-Cultural Communication and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts”
Week 3
February 10, Monday – Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, chapters 1-2
February 13, Thursday – Anzaldúa, Borderlands, chapters 3-4
Week 4
February 17, Monday – COLLEGE CLOSED
February 20, Thursday – Anzaldúa, Borderlands, chapters 5-6: focus your weekly response on a passage from the reading
Week 5
February 24, Monday – Anzaldúa, Borderlands, chapter 7
February 25, Tuesday, midnight: Annotation 1 Due Online
February 27, Thursday – José Esteban Muñoz. “Introduction: Performing Disidentifications”, pages 1-19, no weekly response due this week
Week 6
March 2, Monday – Muñoz. “Introduction: Performing Disidentifications”, pages 19-39.
March 5, Thursday – Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “The Sun, the Moon, the Stars,” and “Nilda”
Week 7
March 9, Monday – Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “Alma,” “Otravida, Otravez,” and “Flaca”
March 12, Thursday – Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “Alma” (again), “The Pura Principle”
Week 8
March 16, Monday – Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “Invierno”
March 19, Thursday – CLASS CANCELLED
Week 9
March 23, Monday – Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “Miss Lora” & “The Legacy of Childhood Trauma” from The New Yorker
March 26, Thursday – Díaz, This is How You Lose Her, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”& “Junot Diaz, Feminism, Ethnicity” from Inside Higher Ed.
Friday, March 27 — Annotation 2 Due
Week 10
March 30, Monday – Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
April 2, Thursday – Machado, In the Dream House
Week 11
April 6, Monday – Machado, In the Dream House
April 9, Thursday – SPRING BREAK
Week 12
SPRING BREAK
Week 13
April 20, Monday – Machado, In the Dream House – Annotation 3 Due
April 23, Thursday – Paul Allaston, “From ‘Latinid@d’ to ‘Latinid@des’: Imagining the Twenty-First Century”
Week 14
April 27, Monday – Writing Day – Proposal and Outline Due
April 30, Thursday – Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Week 15
May 4, Monday – Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
May 7, Thursday – Writing Day, First Draft Due
Week 16
May 11, Monday – Writing Day, bring reverse outlines
May 14, Thursday – Writing Day, Cisneros, The House on Mango Street