Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Entry requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor's degree in Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American Studies or a cognate area, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies MPhil/PhD offers a tightly structured doctoral degree programme in a variety of research fields ranging from Golden Age literature and history to the contemporary Spanish novel, from Brazilian literature to Spanish American film. Recent graduates from the programme have gone on to work as lecturers or as assistant professors in cognate fields such as the publishing industry.

Research areas:

• Early Modern Spanish and Latin American literature, history and culture, including the Golden Age comedia
• Anglo-Spanish literary and political relations 1500–1640, especially translation
• 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature
• The novel of the restoration period in Spain
• Contemporary Spanish fiction/translation
• Spanish film
• 19th- and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America
• 19th- and 20th-century Spanish-American literature
• Spanish American essay writers
• Latin American film and documentary
• Latino studies
• Migration, mobility and space
• The history of the Portuguese Empire
• Brazilian literature
• Posthumanism in Latin American film, literature and art
• Comparative American literature and culture