Current Courses

Courses I Teach

• SPAN4900 - Rebellion, Revolution, and Resistance in México
  Accounts of rebellion, revolution, and resistance permeate the cultural histories of modern México. This course will focus on these variants of class struggles in México beginning with the late 19th century Mayan rebellions in Yucatán, to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, passing through the student resistance movement of 1968, and ending on the January 1, 1994, uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In this sense, while we will focus on key moments often studied in Mexican history, these will be temporally and thematically “surrounded” by relatively understudied moments.  Our theoretical investigations into the concepts of rebellion, revolution, and resistance will trouble this diachronic approach and track their reverberations on a global scale beyond linear historical timelines. To do so, we will think alongside a wide range of primary source documents, photographs, films, murals, novels, and essays that both express this history and theorize these three concepts. At the end, we will return to the Yucatán peninsula. We will grapple with contemporary tensions between President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Maya Train project, the 30th-year anniversary of Zapatista autonomy, and ecological collapse. Are rebellion, revolution, and resistance still thinkable today?