{"id":2923,"date":"2025-03-31T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/?page_id=2923"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:11:40","slug":"interim-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/interim-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\n<p><strong>Spanish 274<\/strong><br \/><strong>Topic for January 2026: Spain\u2019s Monsters\/Los monstruos de Espa\u00f1a<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prerequisite<\/span>: Spanish 250 or Spanish 251<br \/>Prof. Marit Hanson<br \/><br \/>Monsters and mythological creatures form a part of every nation\u2019s history and cultural archive. At times benign, more often malevolent, monsters reflect prevalent social anxieties and often signal boundaries between Self and Other. In this course, we will examine appearances of the monstrous at different points in Spain\u2019s history and consider how these monsters continue to shape Spanish national identity and cultural imagination today. We will focus primarily on representations of monsters from three time periods: early colonial narratives of Spanish America, the end of the Spanish Civil War\/beginning of Francisco Franco\u2019s dictatorship, and the present day. We will analyze a variety of texts: literature, essays, propaganda, film, and a graphic novel. These texts will be situated within the historical context in which they were created and supplemented with short theoretical readings to enhance our understanding and analyses. As a part of the course, students will complete a final digital storymapping project that demonstrates their comprehension and analysis of course themes.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em>Tentative readings include but are not limited to<\/em>:<br \/>Excerpts from <em>Monster Theory, <\/em>edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen<br \/>Excerpts from <em>El primer viaje a las indias, <\/em>by Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n (first diary of Columbus to the Americas)<br \/><em>El laberinto del fauno<\/em> (film) directed by Guillermo del Toro\u00a0<br \/>Advertising materials for Spain\u2019s Festivales de moros y cristianos<br \/>\u201cMil euros por tu vida\u201d by Elia Barcel\u00f3 (short story and graphic novelization)<br \/>Novellas from Editorial Cerbero<br \/><br \/><strong>Counts as a 270-level elective for the Spanish major.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish 274Topic for January 2026: Spain\u2019s Monsters\/Los monstruos de Espa\u00f1aPrerequisite: Spanish 250 or Spanish 251Prof. Marit Hanson Monsters and mythological creatures form a part of every nation\u2019s history and cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10430,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}