Berkley Center

This graduate-level seminar focuses on literary and other cultural material produced by writers of U.S. Latinx heritage published in the second decade of the twenty-first century, as well as works of scholarship and criticism in Latinx literary studies in order to accomplish a number of learning goals for students, including: familiarizing students with an emerging body of literary and cultural work by artists hailing from the largest cultural minority population in the United States; creating opportunities for critical reflection on how national, comparative, and “minority” literatures (and cultures) mutually interact and inter-implicate one another; modeling how forms of cultural production can both shape as well as represent the historical moments of their emergence; tracing a genealogy of critical and scholarly work; and, finally, offering students opportunities to put theory into practice in their own reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. This course (ENGL 641) was taught by Ricardo Ortiz as a Doyle Seminar in spring 2020.