Graduate Seminar with Mexican Writer David Toscana
Teaching
Professor Williams's teaching primarily involves graduate courses on twentieth-century Latin American fiction and undergraduate courses on twentieth-century Latin American literature. Most of his courses deal with both the major writers of the Boom generation and more recent trends in late twentieth-century writing, such as postmodernism and feminism, and the innovations of the youngest generation of fiction writers that some critics have begun to call "post-postmodern".
Most of the recent doctoral dissertations he has directed have involved eclective approaches to Latin American fiction (particularly the fiction of Mexico and Colombia) of the 1980s and 1990s.
Graduate Seminar with Mexican Writer David Toscana
Graduate Students
.Mark Anderson Traci Roberts Shawn Stein Gabriella Garcia Martin Camps
Doctoral Dissertations Directed
"Tres cuentistas hispanoamericanos: Julio Ram¨án Ribeyro, Gabriel Garc¨ªa
M¨¢rquez, Augusto Monterroso," Ana Mercedes Pati?o, University of California,
Riverside, 2000.
"Marginaliddad y posmodernidad en la novela andina" Elena Ferrufino,
University of Colorado," 1998.
"La novela colombiana, 1980-1995" Nelly Zamora, University of Colorado,
1997
"El espacio en la novela mexicana: Carlos Fuentes, Luis Arturo Ramos y
Federico Campbell," Mar¨ªa Elvira Villamil, University of Colorado, 1997
"El mito y la utop¨ªa en la narrativa de Alvaro Mutis," Gina Ponce
de Le¨án, University of Colorado, 1997
"La mirada en la narrativa de Carlos Fuentes, Juan Garc¨ªa Ponce e In¨¦s
Arredondo," EstherAvenda?o de Chen, University of Colorado, 1996
"Figuraciones literarias e ideolog¨ªa en la narrativa de Mempo Giardinelli,"
Alicia Rol¨án, University of Colorad, defended, 1996
"La otra historia: la novela femenina en Colombia," University of
Colorado, defended, 1994.
"La narrativa de Ricardo Piglia," Sandra Garabano, University of Colorado,
defended, 1994 (currently in press as book).
"La narrativa afro-colombiana: Zapata Olivella, Arnoldo Palacios y H¨¦ctor
Rojas Herazo," Evelina Felicit¨¦-Maurice, University of Colorado, defended,
1992
"Cr¨ªtica cultural: relaciones de poder y carnavalizaci¨án en la novela
chilena contempor¨¢nea," Guillermo Garc¨ªa-Corales, University of Colorado,
defended, 1992 (appeared as book, 1995).
"La narrativa reciente de Julio Cort¨¢zar," Mar¨ªa Dolores Blanco-Arnejo,
University of Colorado, defended, 1992 (appeared as book, 1996).
"La narrativa de Sergio Pitol y el proyecto dial¨ágico de Bakhtin,"
Jes¨¡s Salas-Elorza, University of Colorado, defended, 1992.
"La primera modernidad colombiana: la novela colombiana de los a?os cuarenta,"
Yolanda Forero-Villegas, University of Colorado, defended, 1992 (appeared as
book, 1994).
"Surgimiento, desarrollo y consolidaci¨án de la novela moderna en Venezuela,"
Amarilis Hidalgo de Jes¨¡s, University of Colorado, defended, 1991 (appeared
as book, 1995).
"Tres novelistas de vanguardia: Macedonio Fern¨¢ndez, Jos¨¦ F¨¦lix Fuenmayor,
Jaime Torres Bodet," Mar¨ªa Bustos Fern¨¢ndez, University of Colorado,
defended, 1990 (appeared as book, 1997)
"Cuerpo y cultura en la narrativa de R.H. Moreno-Dur¨¢n," Eduardo
Jaramillo Zuluaga, Washington University, defended, 1986.
"Ret¨árica e ideolog¨ªa en la novela colombiana finisecular: 1886-1903,"
Gilberto G¨ámez Ocampo, Washington University, defended, 1985 (appeared as book,
1988).
Graduate Courses Taught
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel (six times)
New Novel in Spanish America (four times)
Spanish American Novel of Seventies (three times)
Traditional Novel in Spanish America (three times)
Study of Narrative (once)
Seminar: Colombian Novel (three times)
Seminar: Mexican Fiction (four times)
Seminar: Fiction of Carlos Fuentes (three times)
Seminar: Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez and Vargas Llosa (twice)
Seminar: Argentine Novel (three times)
Seminar: Andean Novel (four times)
Seminar: Postmodern Fiction in Spanish America (twice)
Typical Undergraduate Courses Taught at UCR:
Spanish 110
Spanish 120C
Spanish 181B
(Course syllabi and other information on these courses available at ilearn.ucr.edu)