René de Costa
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773/702-8418
Email: rdecosta@uchicago.edu
Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Spanish American Literatures
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University 1970
Selected Courses Taught
Graduate: Theater of Spain and Spanish America; Poetry and Poetics from Middle Ages to Present; Painting and Poetry of the Avant-Garde (France, Spain, Italy and Latin America); Latin American Thought (Essay); Literature of the Fantastic (European and Latin American); Humor Theory; Borges; Huidobro; Neruda; Parra; Women Writers of Span and Spanish America.
Undergraduate: A variety of courses in the Humanities and World Literature, with readings from the Great Books and hitherto "marginal" writers; Art, Architecture and Literature sequences for year long team-taught courses in Latin American Civilization; intensive course on Civilization in the Western Mediterranean given at the University of Chicago's Center in Barcelona, Spain.