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Faculty
Naomi Andre, Women's Studies
Catherine L. Benamou, American Culture/
Film & Video Studies
Ruth Behar, Anthropology/Romance Langs & Lits
Giorgio Bertellini, Romance Langs & Lits/Film & Video Studies
Sueann Caulfield, History/Latin American & Caribbean Studies/Residential
College
James (Jay) Cook, History/American Culture
Fernanco Coronil, Anthropology-History/LACS
Maria Cotera, American
Culture/Women's Studies
Ivonne Del Valle, Romance Languages & Literatures
Philip Deloria, American Culture/History
Glenda Dickerson, Theater
& Drama/Center for World Performance Studies
Mamadou Diouf, History/CAAS
David Doris, CAAS/History of Art
Gregory Dowd, History/American Culture
Jorge DuanyAmerican Culture/Latino/a
Studies
Frieda Ekotto, Romance Langs & Lits/CAAS
Jacqueline Francis, History of Art/CAAS
Kevin K. Gaines, History/CAAS
Anne R. Gere, English/School
of Education
Dena Goodman, History/Women's Studies/Romance Langs & Lits
Lorna Goodison, English/CAAS
Sandra R. Gunning, American
Culture/English
Linda K. Gregerson, English
David J. Hancock, History
David Halperin, English Lang & Lit/Women's Studies
Jarrod L. Hayes, Romance
Languages & Literatures
Gabrielle Hecht, History/Residential
College
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola,
Romance Langs & Lits
Daniel Herwitz,
Director, Institute for the Humanities/History of Art/Philosophy/School of Art & Design
Jean-Herve Jezequel, History
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof,
American Culture/History/Romance Langs & Lits
Anne Herrmann, English Lang & Lit
Rebecca Hong, Romance Langs & Lits
Nancy R. Hunt, History/Obstetrics
& Gynecology
James S. Jackson, CAAS/Psychology/Institute
for Social Research/ Research Center for Group Dynamics/School of
Public Health
Martha S. Jones, History/CAAS/Law School
Susan M. Juster, History
Carol F. Karlsen, History
Mary C. Kelley, History/American
Culture/Women's Studies
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes,
American Culture/Romance Languages
Alain M Mabanckou, CAAS/Romance Langs & Lits
Bruce Mannheim, Anthropology/Romance Langs & Lits
Peggy McCracken, Romance Langs & Lits
Joshua L. Miller, English Lang & Lit
Michele Mitchell, History/American Culture/CAAS
Maria E Montoya, History/Latina/o
Studies/Romance Langs & Lits
Steven G. Mullaney, English Lang & Lit
Nadine Naber, Anthropology/American
Culture/Women's Studies
Susan Najita, English Lang & Lit
Ifeoma C Nwankwo, English/CAAS
Susan S. Parrish, English
Marianetta Porter, School of Art & Design
Alisse S. Theodore Portnoy,
English Lang & Lit
Alexander D. Potts, Art
History
Sonya O. Rose, History/Sociology/Women's
Studies
Hannah Rosen, American
Culture/Women's Studies
Neil Safier, Michigan Society of Fellows/History
Lucia Saks, Film & Video
Studies
Javier Sanjines, Romance Langs & Lits
Xiomara Santamarina, English Lang & Lit
Julius S. Scott III,
CAAS/History
Rebecca J. Scott, History/Law School/CAAS
Sarita See, English Lang & Lit/American Culture
Susan Siegfried,
History of Art/Women's Studies
Julie Skurski, Anthropology/History
Carroll
Smith-Rosenberg, American Culture/History/Women's Studies
Lucia M. Suarez, Romance
Langs & Lits
Miriam Ticktin,
Anthropology/Women's Studies
Valerie J. Traub, English/Women's
Studies
Richard Turits,
History/CAAS
Roland Vazquez, School of Music
Gustavo Verdesio, Romance
Langs & Lits
Penny M. Von Eschen,
History/CAAS
Jennifer Wenzel, English Lang & Lit
Leigh A. Woods, School
of Music/Theatre & Drama
Magdalena Zaborowska, American
Culture/CAAS
Courses
Fall 2005:
American Culture
AMCULT 498--Humanities Approaches to American Culture
Section 001 — Space, Archaeology & Afro-American Identity
Meets with CAAS 458.001 and ARCH 409.001.
Instructor(s): Magdalena J Zaborowska, Coleman Austin Jordan
[3 credits]
Built environments and architectural practice have segregated African bodies within Western societies and literally "set in stone" racial hierarchies invented in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade. This course examines the ways in which African American identities have been constructed around spatially contingent notions of race, gender, and nationhood. In addition to architectural explorations, we will also examine the works of James Baldwin, whose prose interrogates complex underpinnings of twentieth-century Americanness. Baldwin's texts will thus provide a rich narrative context for reading the spaces and architectural forms framing African American identity from the times of slavery, through segregation, and more recent racial strife in American urban centers.
AMCULT 699 – Periods in American Culture: Literary
Section 007 – Sexuality and the Narrative of Modernity—A circumAtlantic perspective: Africa and the Americas
Meets with: HISTORY 698.005, WOMENSTD 698.003
Instructor(s): Carroll Smith-Rosenberg; Mamadou Diouf
W 4:00-7:00pm
[3 graduate credits]
This course will examine the formation of sexual narratives within a circumAtlantic perspective, focusing primarily on comparisons and contrasts between Africa and the Americas, North and South. It will explore how key sexual narratives first took form: the various discourses (scientific, medical, religious, political, aesthetic) that were drawn into their composition; their varied speakers and the audiences they spoke to; the material and political contexts in which those discourses took form. It will explore the narratives’ relation to modernity and to those two key components of modernity – the modern nation state and the individual subject of modernity. Consequently, the course will face in two directions – towards the national, the political and the sociological – towards the subjective, the personal, aesthetic, and psychological. Most compellingly, it will probe the interactions and interdependencies of these two registers and ask if they are ever truly separate.
It will also explore the role sexual narratives played in the construction of a national body politics: How were citizens drawn into national myths and national identities? What role did sexual narratives play in the production of national identities – and in the creation of the modern apparatuses of power in terms of categorization and regulation of transgressive sexualities (prostitution, homosexuality) and production of healthy bodies for state service (bio-power/eugenics/natalism/public health policies).
The course will also map the complex roles sexual narratives play in relations between colonized and post-colonial states and subjects and the metropole. How did the formerly colonized internalize, adapt, and transform those colonizing narratives? How were those narratives gendered and what role do they play in the production and deployment of power within the modern state? Shifting our focus, how did sexual narratives contribute to the individual’s entrance into the modernity?
Center for African and Afroamerican Studies
CAAS 558 – Black World Seminar
Sexuality and the Narrative of Modernity, A circumAtlantic perspective: Africa and the Americas
Meets with AC699.008 & HIST 698.005 Instructor(s): Mamadou Diouf/Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
W 4:00-7:00pm
English
ENGLISH 384—Topics in Caribbean Literature
Section 001—Life and Literature in the Caribbean Diaspora
Instructor: Ifeoma Nwankwo
TTh 1:00-2:30pm
[3 undergraduate credits]
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_detail/0,,8,00.html?termArray=f_05_1560&term=Fall%202005&content=1560ENGLISH384001
This course centers on literature, music, and film produced out of Caribbean-descended communities in the United States, Canada, England, and Central America (Panama and Costa Rica in particular). The writers (and musicians and filmmakers) we will engage have roots in a variety of Caribbean sites including Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico and relate to those roots in equally varied ways. Whereas some of the writers come out of relatively recently migrated communities, others are from communities that have been in North or Central America or England for generations. Our focus will be on the ways in which they craft identities and art by juggling their multiple cultural backgrounds and national origins. Specifically, we will explore such questions as:
- How is home defined in their works? As a place in the Caribbean, as the nation of residence or as an imagined place that is neither?
- How is home recreated or maintained? Through memories? Through return visits? Through carnival?
- What differences between Caribbean diasporan communities in racial, cultural, or ethnic self-definition are apparent — do they all define themselves as "Black" across the board or do they define themselves based on nation of origin, nation of residence, language, depending on where they live? Why or why not?
The class, then, is an exploration of the meanings and perceived relevance of Caribbeanness to people of Caribbean descent in the Americas and Europe. Course requirements: one 6-page essay, two exams, group presentation, and occasional quizzes.
History of Art
HA 235 –
Section 001--Art and Architecture of the Americas until 1450 CE
Instructor: Stella Nair
TThu 2:30-4:00pm http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/F2005/235-001.html
This course offers an introduction to the art, architecture and urban design of the Americas from earliest settlements until shortly before the arrival of Europeans. The course will cover the visual culture of the Maya, Aztec, Ancient Puebloans, Incas and Moche, among other nations and First Peoples stretching across North, Central and South America. Sites to be examined include Machu Picchu, Tikal, Teotihuacan and Mesa Verde.
HA 360/CAAS 380— Topics in African Art
Section 001--Theories of African Diaspora
Fall 2005, MW 2:30-4:00pm
Instructor: Jacqueline Francis (Assist. Prof., HistofArt/Ctr for Afr and Afroamer Studes) http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_detail/0,,8,00.html?termArray=f_05_1560&term=Fall%202005&content=1560HISTART360001
In this course, we will investigate cultural production generally set outside “the fine arts” in case studies of “folk art,” pre-Lenten Carnival costume design and performances, sacred spaces, and multi-media religious objects made in Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and the United States. In addition, we will scrutinize the very category that is African Diaspora art: how has the African Diaspora become a field of scholarly inquiry and a popular interest outside the academy? What does "diaspora" include, exclude, and presume?
HA 617—Visual Valence
Section 001--Early Modern Latin America (Architecture, Space and Landscape in Colonial Encounters)
Instructor: Stella Nair
F 12:00-3:00pm
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/F2005/617-001.html
[3 graduate credits]
With a focus on Early Modern Latin America, the objective of this course is to develop critical thinking regarding cross-cultural encounters and the ways they have impacted our cultural landscapes. We will explore the specific modalities in which cultural encounters are inscribed in the spaces, built environments and landscapes in and on which these interactions occur. Students will be introduced to the theoretical issues arising from the relationship between visual culture and cultural exchange and to the major methods and approaches to studying architecture, space and landscape.
Spanish
Spanish 473—Colonial/Postcolonial Studies in Latin-American Cultures Section 001--Misioneros, náufragos y tránsfugas del Imperio
Instructor: Ivonne Del Valle
TTh 10:00-11:30am
[3 undergraduate credits, 3 graduate credits]
In this course, focused on Colonial México, we will explore the different experiences of Europeans (Spaniards for the most part) living, voluntarily or forcibly, with Indians and isolated from other members of their own cultural-ethnic group. Cabeza de Vaca’s wandering for years among Indians, living with them and accommodating himself to their languages and social practices will help us consider the layers of social integration into foreign cultures. In this process of subject formation and cultural transformation, language and body are crucial. Without losing sight of the historical particularities of these colonial cases, we will draw comparisons with contemporary cases (real or literary) of “going over to the other side.
Spanish 855 – Special Topics Seminar
Section 001--El siglo XVIII: escritura y colonialismo
Instructor: Ivonne Del Valle
Th 1:00-4:00pm
[3 graduate credits]
In this course we will explore the meaning of the Enlightenment in its own time and the interplay between the enlightened projects of the 18th century and colonialism. From the conversation, full of frictions and disagreements, between these projects and the American reality (its materiality), emerges a panorama that allows us to rethink the supposed epistemological change taking place during the 18th century, while opening a space to analyze our relationship with that era and its production.
Women’s Studies
WOMENSTD 698 – Special Graduate Seminar
Section 001— Stigma and Mental Illness
Instructor: Jonathan Metzl
T 3:00-6:00pm
[3 graduate credits]
This new graduate seminar will explore the historical connections between stigmatizations of race, gender, and mental illness in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century to the present. Looking across a range of discourses * including psychiatry, psychoanalysis, African American and feminist studies, anthropology, and sociology * the course will focus on how negative beliefs about mental illness are shaped by larger social and political anxieties. The course will begin by reading classic texts about stigma (Freud, Erving Goffman, Roy Porter) and about stigmatized identities (DuBois, Fanon, Farhad Dalal), before moving to representations of mental illness in fiction, film, mental-illness memoirs, and advertising. We will be concerned throughout both with the ways in which cultural forces shape notions of stigma, and ways in which individuals co-opt stigmatized identities in order to redefine or reject them. The course will conclude with an extended critical engagement with present-day antistigma campaigns (NAMI, pharmaceutical-company sponsored campaigns, etc.), and a consideration of how historical analysis might help us devise new modes of intervention.
WOMENSTD 698—Special Seminar
Section 003-- Sexuality and the Narrative of Modernity — A CircumAtlantic Perspective: Africa and the Americas
Meets with AMCULT 699.007, HISTORY 698.005
Instructor(s): Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Mamadou Diouf
W 4:00-7:00pm
[1-3 graduate credits]
This course will examine the formation of sexual narratives within a circumAtlantic perspective, focusing primarily on comparisons and contrasts between Africa and the Americas, North and South.
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