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Hispanic Studies PhD/MLitt/MPhil – (Ph.D.)
University of Birmingham
Centre for European Languages and Cultures| Application Deadline: | None, but early application advised | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,232 - ≈ € 12,860 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English Spanish | ||
Location of University of Birmingham
Research activity in Hispanic Studies spans medieval to modern, embracing the history, literatures and cultures of Spain and its regions, Catalonia, Galicia, the Hispanic Caribbean and Spanish America, Portugal and Brazil, as well as the disciplines of Linguistics and Translation Studies.
The Department currently has two centres funded by external bodies:
* The Xunta de Galicia supports the Centro de Estudos Galegos to promote the teaching of Galician in the Department, and provides small sums to support research activity in Galician Studies, including the publication of the Galician Review.
* Since 2005 the Portuguese government has sponsored the Cátedra Gil Vicente, a research centre for Lusophone Studies within the Department. The centre funds conferences and training events organised or attended by academic staff, language instructors and postgraduate students. It also offers partial bursaries to fund postgraduate students.
Key facts
Type of Course: Doctoral research
Duration: PhD – 3 years full-time; 6 years part-time;MPhil – 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
Start date: September 2011
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Research interests of staff
Supervision is offered for the degrees of MPhil and PhD in the following areas:
* Crime and detective fiction (in Spanish and Portuguese; 20th and 21st century women's narrative from Spain and Latin America; violence and gender; Luso-Brazilian women's literature. Contact: Dr Shelley Godsland
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6041
Email: s.godsland@bham.ac.uk
* Hispanic Caribbean and Latin-American literature; gender and post-colonial studies. Contact: Dr Conrad James
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6037
Email: c.m.james.1@bham.ac.uk
* The invention of America in the Spanish culture of the exile of 1939; women's personal narratives; 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature; modern Spanish poetry. Contact: Dr Mónica Jato
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6035
Email: m.jato@bham.ac.uk
* 20th-century Hispanic narrative; the avant-garde novel of the 1920s; the social novel of the 1930s; Spanish Civil War Literature; Spanish republican exile; María Zambrano. Contact: Professor Frank Lough (Head of Department)
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6034
Email: f.lough@bham.ac.uk
* Catalan poetry and narrative; literature of exile; comparative literature. Contact: Dr Elisenda Marcer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4467
Email: e.marcer@bham.ac.uk
* Portuguese literature in English translation; the anthology in Portugal; the Uruguayan short story; advertising language; translation studies. Contact: Dr Patricia Odber de Baubeta
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6031
Email: p.a.odber-de-baubeta@bham.ac.uk
* Modern Hispanic poetry and narrative; intellectual history; the interaction between literature and history; exile and censorship in Hispanic culture. Contact: Antonio M. Sánchez
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5999
Email: a.m.sanchez@bham.ac.uk
* Textual editing; medieval chronicles; comparative philology; Hispanic linguistics. Contact: Dr Aengus Ward
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7237
Email: a.m.m.ward@bham.ac.uk
* Golden Age literature and culture; drama and theatre in early modern Europe. Contact: Dr Jules Whicker
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6033
Email: j.whicker@bham.ac.uk
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Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 93 |
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