Sam Carter
Visiting Assistant Professor in Luso-Hispanic Studies
- Office
- Voter Hall 204
- samc@middlebury.edu
- Office Hours
- Mondays 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Fridays 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, and by appointment
Courses Taught
SPAN 0201
Intermediate Spanish
Course Description
Intermediate Spanish
This accelerated course is designed to review, reinforce, and consolidate the linguistic structures that students need in order to reach the intermediate level of proficiency in Spanish. A grammar review will accompany intensive language acquisition, vocabulary expansion, readings, discussions, and compositions. (Placement test required) 3 hrs. lect., 1 hr. drill.
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SPAN 0220
Current
Intermediate Spanish II
Course Description
Intermediate Spanish II
A course for students seeking to perfect their academic writing skills in Spanish. The course is also an introduction to literary analysis and critical writing and will include reading and oral discussion of literary texts. The course will also include a thorough review of grammar at a fairly advanced level. This course may be used to fulfill the foreign languages distribution requirement. (SPAN 0201, SPAN 0210, or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc.
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SPAN 0307
Ideas&Cultures of SouthernCone
Course Description
Ideas and Cultures of the Southern Cone
What’s in a name? A sub-region of Latin America, the Southern Cone consists of three countries marked by cultural, geographical, historical, sociopolitical (dis)connection. In this course we will approach Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay not only as nations, but as a region with extensive transnational connections. Through analysis of a wide-range of cultural products like Ercilla’s early modern epic poem La Araucana, Figari’s paintings depicting candombé culture, and films of the New Argentine Cinema, we will study aspects of the cultural identities and intellectual histories of these countries and the region. (SPAN 0220 or placement) 3 hrs. lect./disc
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SPAN 0337
Sound, Race, and Resistance
Course Description
Sound, Race, and Resistance
In this course, we will examine how works from across Latin America address intersections of listening and race. Exploring where sound serves as a site of racialization as well as how the ear can construct and contest difference, we will place films, literary texts, a tape documentary, and even a radio play into conversation with readings from the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. Doing so will allow us to consider how we might counter essentialist notions of sound as we critique misguided understandings of necessary connections between voice and race, to name one key concern. In addition to contemplating these ways that our ears have been tuned or trained, we will also study works that demand we listen differently.
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SPAN 0342
Current
Literature in the Time of Code
Course Description
Literature in the Time of Code
Literary works can help us think critically about the possibilities and problems posed by new technologies. But what contemplative or creative spaces can literature establish now that reading and writing increasingly occur alongside forms of computation ranging from social media algorithms to artificial intelligence? In this course, which is anchored in Argentina but also incorporates texts from elsewhere in Latin America, we will examine some complexities that arise when literature confronts code. Resisting accounts of technological determinism and instead contemplating how literary texts can help us assess the changes that code enacts, we will consider materials including speculative short stories, a cy-fi novel, poetry generators, and manifestos, and we will even evaluate the limits of computational approaches to literary analysis.
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