Brian Cope

• Nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish Literature (Realism, Modernism)
• Spanish and Latin American Cinema (Neorealism, Postmodernism, Documentary)
• Intersections of Philosophy, Literature, and Cinema
• Spanish and Latin American Intellectual History
• Cultural Studies
• Immigration Studies

I am currently preparing a manuscript on the role of skepsis in the critical outlook of Miguel de Unamuno and his incorporation of it in his novelistic production around themes of personal or collective crisis.

• Beginning Spanish
• Intermediate Spanish
• Readings in Spanish Peninsular Cultures
• Poetic Lives, Poetic Lines: An Introduction to Spanish Poetry
• Hispanic Film
• Cervantes and Don Quijote
• Don Juan in the Spanish Cultural Imaginary
• Fate, Freewill, and Entrapment in Modern Spanish Narrative
• Spanish Existentialist Writers and Filmmakers
• Diversity, Intersectionality, Otherness (FYS)

Teaching Philosophy

I design my courses to take students on a journey of sustained inquiry and discovery that challenges them to continue to grow as Spanish speakers and to practice critical thinking. My courses provide a structured path to their established learning goals, and I support my students by giving them the necessary tools, guidance, motivation, and encouragement to succeed. I believe that learning entails trial and error and that with the right balance of hard work, discipline, and planning everything is attainable.

• “Ciclo de la Historia Repetida: El Juego de Espera de los “Dreamers,” by Fernanda Bañuelos, spring 2024. (double major with Education)
• “Joder… Aquí vienen los delinquents. Una exploración de dos películas de Eloy de la Iglesia: Colegas y El pico,” by Hannah Grosman, spring 2023. (double major with Education)
• “Nativism, another word for racism? A study of how anti-immigrant sentiments create animus towards the Latinx Community,” by Elizabeth Suárez, spring 2021. (double major with Political Science)
• “Miguel de Cervantes, Platón, y Francisco de Goya: La conexión entre la fantasía y la realidad,” by Dezmond Morrow, spring 2021.
• “La libertad y sus acontecimientos: un enfoque en el existencialismo y el uso de la
  libertad dentro de artefactos culturales,” by Carlos Hernández, spring 2020. (double major with Education)
• “Moral Obligations: Towards a Just System of Immigration,” by Mayra López, spring 2019. (double major with Philosophy)
• “Fronteras entretejidas: texto, textil, y la formación de una narrativa mestiza en las obras de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Gloria Anzaldúa, y Sandra Cisneros,” by Claire Billingsley, spring 2016.
• “De monstruo a modelo: Cómo el mito de La Llorona refleja los cambios en la Sociedad, la identidad, y la cultura en tres libros infantiles,” by Charlotte Tierney, spring 2016.
• “Cervantes y Velásquez: Dos artistas revolucionarios y cómo exploraron los mismos conceptos en sus técnicas diferentes,” by Cathryn Rudawsky, spring 2015.
• “Oaxaca vive, ¿la lucha sigue?: Una crónica de conflictividad social,” by Lauren Hines, spring2009. (double major with English)
• “España vista desde afuera: la evolución del turismo en España desde los finales del siglo XIX hasta el nuevo milenio,” by Rebecca Beyer, spring 2007.
• “El concepto de la salvación en las obras de Miguel de Unamuno,” by Emily Richardson, spring 2007.
• “El problema del libre albedrío en Niebla,” by Sean Hennessey, spring 2006.

• “The Rebranding of Don Juan Tenorio as a Social Misfit in Tristana,” in Approaches to Teaching Benito Pérez Galdós. New York MLA: (forthcoming)
• “Las raíces filosóficas de la actitud crítica de Unamuno,” in Actas del XXI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert. (forthcoming)
• “San Manuel Bueno, mártir as Literary Artifact,” in Approaches to Teaching Miguel de Unamuno. New York: MLA, 2020. 143-152.
• “Atributos escépticos y nietzscheanos de Pachico Zabalbilde de Paz en la guerra de Unamuno” in Perspectivas actuales del hispanismo mundial. Christoph Strosetzki. Vol. II. Munster: Readbox Unipress, 2019. 173-184.
• “La arquitectura epistemológica de La forma del silencio de María Luisa Puga,” in María Luisa Puga y la (re)construcción del espacio. Mexico City: Editorial de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México, 2018. 91-116.
• “Unamuno y Montaigne: una aproximación a Niebla desde la Apología a Raimundo Sabunde,” in Hispanismos del mundo: diálogos y debates en (y desde) el Sur. Leonardo Funes. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, 2016. 99-107.
• “Incongruent Visions: Documentary Incursions into the Debate Over Illegal Immigration.” Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 8 (Fall 2012): 13-22.
• “Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir: Philosophical Skepticism in a Time of Political Upheaval.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 1 (Spring 2011): 177-199.
• “Synchronicity in Julio Medem’s Los amantes del Círculo Polar: Poeticizing Coincidence in a Taoist Vernacular.” Anales de la literatura Española Contemporánea 36.1 (Winter 2011): 33-53.
• “The Convergence of Mysticism and Psychosis in Almodóvar’s Hable con ella.” Ojáncano 37 (Spring 2010): 21-40.
• “The Hellenic Origins of Unamuno’s Skepticism and Niebla’s Skeptical Parody of Cartesianism.” Hispanic Review 77.4 (Autumn 2009): 471-493.

• Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists)
• Modern Language Association
• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese