Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

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• Programme overview
• Entry requirements
• Staff research interests

Programme overview

The interests and expertise of the Department's full-time academic staff cover a wide range of subjects, including modern Hispanic (Spanish, Latin American and Portuguese-speaking) culture, thought, and literature, Hispanic history, Atlantic Studies, and Brazilian Studies. Individual research supervision in these areas is available within the Department. We explore cross-cutting themes, such as colonialism and postcolonialism and transnational modernisms, linking departmental work to the Faculty's major research groups.

We welcome applications from students wishing to pursue tailor-made research to Masters or Doctoral level. All postgraduates participate in a vigorous programme of research seminars, and make key contributions to the research activities of the Department, the School of Modern Languages, and the Faculty.

Research groups

Departmental research may be based on the work of individual staff, or on collaborative work between colleagues both within and outside the Department. Examples of such collaborative research include the long 19th century, a major focus of interdisciplinary research expertise in Modern Languages; Colonialism, in which colleagues Dr Williams and Dr Brown are also part of the corresponding Faculty of Arts research theme; or Visual Cultures, where the work of Professor Andrew Ginger is linked to History of Art in the Department of Historical Studies.

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Entry requirements

MPhil: An upper second-class degree (or international equivalent). MLitt/PhD: A pass at MA level (or international equivalent).

For information on international equivalent qualifications, please see our International Office website.

Admissions statement

Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.

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Key research interests

Dr Rhian Atkin, 20th-century Portuguese and Lusophone literature and culture.

Dr Matthew Brown, Latin American historical, cultural and literary studies; 18th- to 20th- centuries.

Dr Joanna Crow, Latin American studies; modern Latin American literature; indigenous cultures of Chile.

Professor Andrew Ginger, Spanish and Transatlantic literature; intellectual history; visual culture and cinema, with particular emphasis on reinterpretation of 19th-century Spanish and Spanish Atlantic culture; Romanticism; genesis of modernism; re-evaluation of the canon.

Dr Sally-Ann Kitts, 18th-century Spanish studies; 19th- and early 20th-century Spanish literature.

Dr Francisco Romero Salvadó, Modern Spanish history; the Spanish Civil War.

Dr Caragh Wells, Contemporary Spanish literature; literary theory; women writers and urban fiction.

Dr Caroline Williams, Colonial Spanish American history; frontier studies.

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