Stanford DLCL

The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) teaches students to think about how people use language to make sense of the world.

You may be wondering, "What is the DLCL?" The Stanford Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. We are located in Pigott Hall Building 260, at the corner of Lasuen and Escondido. The 5 departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Language Center, are housed in the Division of L

iteratures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL). Our students and faculty master modern languages and use them to do research in culture, literature, history, politics, and philosophy. In courses in poetry, prose, drama, and film at Stanford and at the Overseas Studies Program, our undergraduates learn to think both critically and globally about how people use language to make sense of the world, to claim an identity and a place in history, to entertain, and to persuade. Our nationally prominent graduate programs are distinguished by regular interaction among scholars of different languages and literatures. Stanford’s PhD students develop their dissertations in conversation with specialists in various world regions and communities, and their rigorous pedagogical training equips them to teach language and literature effectively.

02/16/2024

Nicole T. Hughes, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, was awarded honorable mention for the RSA’s William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2023 for her article "Fiestas Fit for a King: Contested Symbolic Regimes of Power in New Spain." Read the announcement here: https://www.rsa.org/news/665090/Award--Prize-Winners.htm

07/25/2023

Prof. Nicole Hughes' article, “Set in Stone: Jesuit Martyrdom at Land and Sea in Sixteenth-Century Brazil” was published by Colonial Latin American Review in July of 2023. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205216

This piece explores how Jesuit missionaries in Brazil wanted adversaries to slay them in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith), a traditional requirement for martyrdom. The article argues that while the Soldiers of Christ found that their evangelical work remained on land, the sea’s narrative tropes suited the requirements for martyrdom best. To construct their case for Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, they subverted an age-old poetic landscape and constructed a fluid literary cartography.

Nicole Hughes, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University, researches the early modern world with a special focus on New Spain (Mexico) and Brazil in the sixteenth century.

12/18/2021

FRENCH 291: Women in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (FRENCH 391)
Prof. Cécile Alduy, Winter 2022, Tuesdays, 1:30 - 4:30 pm PST

Women as objects and subjects of the voyeuristic gaze inherent to cinema. The evolution of female characters, roles, actresses, directors in the French film industry from the sexual liberation to . Women as archetypes, icons, images, or as agents and subjects. Emphasis on filmic analysis: framing, point of view, narrative, camera work as ways to convey meaning. Themes include: sexualization and desire; diversity and intersectionality in films; new theories of the female gaze; gender, ethnicity, and class.

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10/12/2021

"Island, Archive, Além-mar: The Insular Mechanics of Portuguese Expansion" talk by Lexie Cook, Getty Research Fellow. October 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM PDT on Zoom. Open to all. In English. Conversa em Português a seguir. Part of ILAC 218, COMPLIT 214 with Prof. Nicole T. Hughes. Sponsored by the DLCL and ILAC. Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link. Stanford University

09/22/2021

SLAVIC 123: Getting the Picture: Photojournalism in Russia and the U.S. (AMSTUD 123, COMM 123, REES 223, SLAVIC 323)
Prof. Katherine Reischl

The vast majority of photographs printed and consumed around the world appeared on the pages of magazines and newspapers. These pictures were almost always heavily edited, presented in carefully devised sequences, and printed alongside text.

Through firsthand visual analysis of the picture presses of yesteryear, this course considers the ongoing meaning, circulation, and power of images as they shape a worldview in Russia as well as the US.

In looking at points of contact between two world powers, we will cover the works of a wide array of authors, photographers, photojournalists and photographed celebrities (Lev Tolstoy, Margaret Bourke-White, Russian satirists Ilf and Petrov, John Steinbeck and Richard Capa, and many others). We will explore the relationship between photojournalistic practice of the past with that of our present, from the printed page to digital media, as well as the ethical quandaries posed by the camera¿s intervention into/shaping of modern history. No knowledge of Russian is required.

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09/16/2021

DLCL 205/305: Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists | Quinn Dombrowski | T/TH 1:30 - 2:50 PT, 3-5 units

What happens when you start a project that's bigger than you can do alone? How do you keep things moving while collaborating with people who have different priorities and incentives? This class will cover the theory and application of project management, drawing on examples from digital humanities projects.

We'll put these ideas to use by running a simulation of a project that starts at the beginning of the pandemic, in the style of a tabletop role-playing game. You'll also develop a detailed set of project management documents for a project that's meaningful for you, real, or imaginary. No technical or role-playing game experience required!

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09/15/2021

ILAC 218: Shipwrecks and Backlands: Getting Lost in Literature (COMPLIT 214, COMPLIT 314A, ILAC 318)
Prof. Nicole Hughes

This course takes students on a journey through tales of getting lost in the Portuguese and Spanish empires. We will read harrowing stories of being caught adrift at sea and mystical interpretations of island desertion.

The course begins with sea-dominated stories of Portuguese voyages to Asia, Africa, and Brazil then turns to how the Amazon and the sertão, or backlands, became a driving force of Brazilian literature. Official historians, poets, and novelists imbued the ocean and the backlands with romanticism, yet these spaces were the backdrop to slavery and conquest.

Instead of approaching shipwreck and captivity narratives as eyewitness testimonies, as many have, we will consider how they produced 'the sea' and 'the wilderness' as poetic constructions in Western literature while also offering glimpses of the 'darker side' of Iberian expansion.

Taught in English with all texts offered both in English and the original Portuguese or Spanish. Optional guest lectures in Portuguese.

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06/21/2021

Attention undergraduates: Come live in Stanford’s At Home Abroad House next year!

Applications accepted until June 23.

AHA House will be an intellectual and cultural crossroads where students will engage in trans-cultural learning and acquire the tools necessary to confront the complexity of our contemporary world. We welcome any and all students interested in exploring languages and cultures beyond the English-speaking world.

Through activities including film series, seminars, cooking classes, language tables, off-campus outings, and meetings with faculty and scholars from all over the world, residents will have a chance to broaden their worldview.

Learn more: https://stanford.io/2RWzzR1

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