Spanish and Portuguese
82-90 Wall Street, 432.1150, 432.5439
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Chair
Roberto González Echevarría
Director of Graduate Studies
Rolena Adorno [F] (432.1154, rolena.adorno@yale.edu)
Director of the Language Program
María Martino Crocetti
Professors
Rolena Adorno, Roberto González Echevarría,
K. David Jackson, Josefina Ludmer, María Rosa Menocal,
Noël Valis
Associate Professor
Lidia Santos
Assistant Professors
Lidia Santos
Senior Lector
María Martino Crocetti
Fields of Study
Fields include Spanish Peninsular literature, Latin
American literature, Portuguese and Brazilian literatures.
The doctoral program offers: (1) a Spanish major concentrating
in a single field of study (medieval, Renaissance/Golden Age,
modern Spanish Peninsular, colonial Spanish American, contemporary
Spanish American); (2) a combined major in Spanish and Portuguese
offering the student the opportunity to work in both the Luso
Brazilian and Spanish/Spanish American fields. In addition,
the department participates in: (1) a combined Ph.D. program
in Spanish and Portuguese and African American Studies offered
in conjunction with the African American Studies program and
(2) a combined Ph.D. program in Spanish and Portuguese and
Renaissance Studies offered in conjunction with the Renaissance
Studies program.
Special Admissions Requirements
Thorough command of the language in which the student
plans to specialize and a background in its literature, as
well as command of at least one of the three additional languages
in which the student will need to fulfill requirements.
Application must include GRE scores, a personal statement,
and an academic writing sample in the language of the proposed
specialization not to exceed twenty-five pages in length.
Students whose native language is not English must submit
scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree
The department requires two years of course work, sixteen term courses
with a grade of Honors in at least two courses. Course work includes two required
courses, SPAN 500, History of the Spanish Language, and SPAN 790, Methodologies
of Modern Foreign Language Teaching; two courses taken outside the department;
and two courses in the literature of the language-literature minor. Also required
are a reading knowledge of Latin and a second language, as well as a third language-literature
minor. In the third year, the student is expected to pass the qualifying examination
(oral and written components) and submit and receive approval of the dissertation
prospectus. Upon completion of all predissertation requirements, including the
prospectus, students are admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. The entire program,
including the dissertation, can be completed in five years.
Participation in the department's teaching and pedagogy program is a degree
requirement. It consists of taking the required course SPAN 790 in the second
year and teaching one section per term of a course in the beginning language
sequence during the third and fourth years of study. Viewed as an integral part
of the course of study for the doctorate, this program includes mentoring by
the faculty as well as supervision by the director of the language program and
course directors.
Combined Ph.D. Programs
Spanish and Portuguese and African American Studies
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese also offers, in conjunction
with the African American Studies program, a combined Ph.D.
in Spanish and Portuguese and African American Studies. For
further details, see African American
Studies.
Spanish and Portuguese and Renaissance Studies
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese also offers, in conjunction
with the Renaissance Studies program, a combined Ph.D. in
Spanish and Portuguese and Renaissance Studies. For further
details, see Renaissance Studies.
Master's Degrees
M.Phil. See Graduate
School requirements. Alternatively, the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese offers, in conjunction with the Medieval
Studies program, a joint M.Phil. degree. For further details,
see Medieval Studies.
M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.). The M.A. en route is
awarded upon the satisfactory completion of eight term courses
and two of the three language requirements (Latin and one
other language).
Courses
PORT 921bu, Camões and The Lusiads. K.
David Jackson. Th 9.30–11.20
A study of Portugal’s most renowned poet Luis de
Camões (1524?–1580) and his Renaissance epic,
The Lusiads (1572), from the perspective of history and
mythology. Students read from and analyze the first edition
in CD-ROM. Camões’s treatment of Vasco da Gama’s
voyage to India is emphasized. In English.
PORT 962au, Brazilian Short Story. K. David
Jackson. MW 1–2.20
This course provides a general critical and historical
perspective on the Brazilian short story, guided by studies
of the aesthetics of the genre. Major authors form the core
of the readings, along with the trends they represent, accompanied
by essays in criticism and theory. In
English.
PORT 991a and b, Tutorial.By arrangement with faculty.
SPAN 500a, History of the Spanish Language. Oscar
Martín. W 4–6
This course explores the origin and development of philology
as the foundational discipline of literary studies, the history
of the Spanish language in the context of intellectual developments
in the twentieth century, the rise of linguistics as a positivist
field, the separation of linguistic from literary studies,
and the fracturing of Romance studies into separate language
and culture fields. In Spanish.
SPAN 520au, Toledo: The Three Faiths and the Foundations
of Medieval Europe. María Rosa Menocal.
MW 10.30–11.20, 1 HTBA
Toledo as a city of philosophical and scientific translations,
of legendary religious tolerance, and of startling admixtures
in the arts and letters. A broadly interdisciplinary approach
explores the dramatic transformations of European culture
in multiple art forms and in intellectual life triggered by
this crossroads city between “East” and “West.”
In English.
SPAN 660au, Cervantes: Don Quixote. Roberto
González Echevarría.
TTh 2.30–3.45
Closely reads Don Quixote in the context of theories
of the novel of the Renaissance and later periods, with particular
attention to the history of ideas and developments in science.
In
Spanish.
SPAN 714b, Eroticism and Narrative. Noël
Valis. M 1.30–3.20
An exploration of the relationship between eroticism,
gender, class, and aesthetics in the novela galante
and other narrative forms of 1880–1930 (Rachilde, Picón,
Valle-Inclán, Trigo, Salinas, Insúa, etc.),
with reference to the theories of Bataille, Paz, Barthes,
and others. In Spanish.
SPAN 790b, Methodologies of Modern Foreign Language Teaching. María
Martino Crocetti. M 3.30–5.20
Preparation for a teaching career through readings, lectures,
classroom discussions, and presentations on current issues
in foreign/second language acquisition theory and teaching
methodology. Classroom techniques
at all levels. An additional ninety-minute practicum meets
immediately afterward. In Spanish
SPAN 816a, Geographies and Genealogies of Spanish American
Literature (Sixteenth to Twentieth
Century). Rolena Adorno. M 4–6
This seminar examines parallel and overlapping genealogies
of Spanish American literature organized geographically and
spanning the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Including
a variety of literary genres, the course consists of four
reading sequences, as follows: Mexico: Bartolomé de
las Casas, Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, José María
Heredia, Reinaldo Arenas; Peru: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala,
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, José Carlos Mariátegui,
José María Arguedas; Nueva Granada/Gran Colombia:
Juan Rodríguez Freyle, Simón Rodríguez,
Simón Bolívar, Gabriel García Márquez;
Río de la Plata: Martín del Barco Centenera,
Mariano Moreno, José María Ramos Mejía,
and Andrés Rivera. In Spanish.
SPAN 939b, The Latin American Essay (Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries). Josefina
Ludmer. Th 2.30–4.20
A theory and analysis of the Latin American essay, works
by Bolívar, Simón Rodríguez, Sarmiento,
Rodó, Vasconcelos, Martínez Estrada, and others.
In Spanish.
SPAN 949b, The Jungle Books. Roberto González
Echevarría. W 4–6
Journeys to the jungle in poetry, fiction, autobiography,
anthropology, travel narrative, and popular culture, and their
relation to imperialism. Particular attention is given to
the origins and evolution of the social sciences and their
reflection in fiction, as well as to popular culture versions
of the journey to the jungle in literature and films, such
as those about Tarzan and Indiana Jones. Texts: Charles Baudelaire,
“Le voyage”; Alvar Núñez Cabeza
de Vaca, Narrative; Alejo Carpentier, The Lost Steps;
André Malraux, La voie royale; Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, The Lost World; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness;
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes tropiques; Rómulo
Gallegos, Canaima; Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller;
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books; William Henry Hudson,
Green Mansions; Jules Verne, Superbe Orénoque
and La jangada, and others. In English (knowledge
of Spanish and French desirable). Also CPLT 772b.
SPAN 991a and b, Tutorial.
By arrangement with faculty.
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