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Qualification
MRes - Master of Research
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Location
University of Glasgow
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
Hispanic Studies is a small, vibrant and dynamic research unit with strong connections to institutions in the USA, Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Overview
Postgraduate students have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities through the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities and will join the diverse and lively postgraduate community within the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. This affords the opportunity for interdisciplinary work under joint supervision. Many of our postgraduate students in the past have come from Chile, Europe, USA, Brazil, and Mexico and we warmly welcome applications from international students.
Staff research interests
- Latin American visual culture, including the cinema, art and photography of Brazil, Mexico and the Southern Cone.
- Brazilian culture, society and national identity.
- 19th, 20th and 21st century Peninsular literature, cinema, cultural history and cultural studies.
- 20th and 21st century Catalan Studies, including literature, cultural studies, sociolinguistics and questions of nationalism/national identity
- Latin America in the nineteenth century
- History of Ideas/Cultural history
- Medievalism.
Examples of topics we can supervise include:
- Regional/National Identities in Spain
- Modern and Contemporary Literature in Catalan and Spanish
- Hispanic Multilingual Literature
- Censorship during Franco’s Regime
- Women Writers in Spain
- the Nineteenth Century Spanish Press
- Hispanic Women Artists
- Contemporary Argentine Cinema
- Gender and the Historic Avant-Garde
- (Auto)biographical/Testimonial Literature in Latin America
- Photographic Narrative in Mexico
- Brazilian History
- Culture and Society
- Political Cinema and Documentary
- Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-speaking world
- Minority Languages
- The Sociolinguistics of Galician
- Multilingualism in context.
Thesis length: 20,000-30,000 words (including references, bibliography and appendices).
Our Master of Research includes both taught and research elements. You will be required to undertake 60 to 80 credits worth of taught courses as well as independent study which represents some contribution to knowledge.
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