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Santiago Colás Homepage: www-personal.umich.edu/~scolas |
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Latin American Literature, Comparative Literature Interests and Current Work I was trained in comparative literature and specialized in 20th century Latin American prose and critical theory. This background certainly continues to inform my teaching and research, but it no longer defines these activities. Presently, I focus in my teaching and writing on reading as a practice. By this I mean that I am interested in communicating to my students and readers the ways in which reading can be seen as one of the many interrelated activities through which we may construct for ourselves an ethical, peaceful, and joyful life. How can we teach and write reading as a life-enhancing activity? The objects and tools that I use tend to be dictated by my tastes at a given moment. So right now: small bits of poetry; sweeping fantastic epics; some of the writings of Gilles Deleuze; early 20th century Rioplatense short stories and novellas; Spinoza's Ethics. Publications that might suggest some of these changes in direction are listed below. Recent and Selected Publications “Telling True Stories, or The Immanent Ethics of Material Spirit (and Spiritual Matter) in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials” forthcoming Discourse 27.1 (2006), pp. 34-66 “Writing Life and Love: Julio Cortázar and Gilles Deleuze,” Angelaki 11.1 (2006): 199—207 “Inventing Autonomies: Meditations on Julio Cortázar and the Politics of Our Time” New Centennial Review 5.2 (2005), pp. 1-34 “Living Invention, or, The Way of Julio Cortázar,” Revista de estudios hispánicos, 37 (2003): 189-212Recent graduate courses taught: Spinoza Writing Immanence in Latin America Gilles Deleuze Pragmatisms Rayuela Recent undergraduate courses taught: Stopping and Reading Versions of Autonomy in Italy and Latin America (team taught with Vincenzo Binetti) Writing Immanence in Latin America Felisberto Hernandez Jorge Luis Borges Julio Cortaza
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