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SP13 Lecture List 2022-23

SP13 Lecture Course 2022-23

Lectures take place on *Fridays 2pm*, *Tuesdays 1pm*, so you must keep these times free in your timetable.

Last-minute changes may not be published here, so please always check the University's centralized timetable.

Week Day Time Date Lecturer Class/Lecture Venue
Michaelmas Term

1

Friday

2pm

7 October 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Roberto Bolaño, Literatura nazi en América and Estrella distante

LB 7

1

Tuesday

1pm

11 October 2022

Dr Carlos Fonseca

Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Ricardo Piglia, Respiración artificial and La ciudad ausente

LB 7

2

Friday

2pm

14 October 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Testimonio: Miguel Barnet, Biografía de un cimarrón and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú

LB 7

2

Tuesday

1pm

18 October 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Testimonio/Escritura femenina: Laura Restrepo, La novia oscura and La multitud errante

LB 7

3

Friday

2pm

21 October 2022

Dr Carlos Fonseca

Popular culture. Manuel Puig: Boquitas pintadas and The Buenos Aires affair

LB 7

3

Tuesday

1pm

25 October 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Popular culture: Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, McOndo

LB 7

4

Friday

2pm

28 October 2022

Prof Brad Epps 

Popular Culture/Rewriting History: Rosario Ferré, Maldito amor; Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, La renuncia del héroe Baltasar, and Ana Lydia Vega, "Pollito Chicken"

ONLINE

4

Tuesday

1pm

1 November 2022

TBC

PDAC

LB 7

5

Friday

2pm

4 November 2022

Prof Brad Epps

The Cinema of Patricio Guzmán: Nostalgia de la luz, El botón de nácar and La cordillera de los sueños 

ONLINE

5

Tuesday

1pm

8 November 2022

TBC

PDAC

LB 7

Lent Term

1

Friday

2pm

20 January 2022

Prof Geoffrey Kantaris

Urban Cultures: La vendedora de rosas, Amores perros, and Cidade de Deus

TBC

1

Tuesday

1pm

24 January 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Urban cultures: Fernando Vallejo, La Virgen de los sicarios and El río del tiempo

TBC

2

Friday

2pm

27 January 2022

Prof Geoffrey Kantaris

Urban cultures/Post-dictatorship Argentine Cinema: La sonámbula and Moebius

TBC

2

Tuesday

1pm

31 January 2022

Prof Brad Epps

Queer Textualities: Cristina Peri Rossi: La nave de los locos and Diamela Eltit: El cuarto mundo

TBC

3

Friday

2pm

3 February 2022

Prof Geoffrey Kantaris

Luisa Valenzuela/Escritura femenina: Cola de lagartija and Como en la guerra

TBC

3

Tuesday

 1pm 

7 February 2022

Prof Brad Epps

Queer Textualities: Néstor Perlongher: selections from Prosa plebeya and Manuel Puig: El beso de la mujer araña

TBC

4

Friday

2pm

10 February 2022

Prof Geoffrey Kantaris

Detective Fiction: Santiago Gamboa, Perder es cuestión de método and La sangre y la lluvia (film)

TBC

4

Tuesday

1pm

14 February 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Queer Textualities: Pedro Lemebel: La esquina es mi corazón and Loco afán

TBC

5

Friday

2pm

17 February 2022

Dr Carlos Fonseca

Detective Fiction: Ricardo Piglia, Plata quemada and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Santa Evita     

TBC

5

Tuesday

1pm

21 February 2022

Dr Rory O'Bryen

Post-Boom Ecologies: Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Lo que soñó Sebastián and Luis Sepúlveda, Un viejo que leía novelas de amor 

TBC