Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Research

PhD

In London

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Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

Overview
REF rankings 2014: The Modern Languages departments are ranked 9th in the REF's power rankings which take into account the quantity and quality of research activity and performed well in terms of impact with 100% of their research rated as having an outstanding (4*) or considerable reach and significance
Current number of academic staff: 19
Current number of research students: 31
Recent publications: Lima Barreto: Sátiras e outras subversões; The Basque City: The Political Economy of Nation Building; Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap; Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial Western Africa; Locating the Middle Ages: The Places and Spaces of Medieval Culture; García Lorca: The Poetics of Self-Consciousness; Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives; Ceremonia comentada: Textos sobre arte, estética y cultura [by Jorge Eduardo Eielson].
Current research projects: “Language Acts and Worldmaking”; “Precolonial West Africa's relations with world history through the lens of exchanges of money and power”, "Out of the Wings: Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation", “Domesticity in surrealism”, “Reception of the English Gothic novel in Spain”, “‘Reindigenisation’ in the post-colonial Andes”, “Resisting World Literature”, “Afro-Brazilian identity and the aesthetics of music-making”.
Partner organisations: Instituto Camões Centre for Studies in Portuguese Language & Culture, King’s Brazil Institute, University of Oxford, Queen's University Belfast, Instituto Camões, Federal University of Minas Gerais, University of São Paulo.

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London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

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Subjects

  • Latin
  • Translation
  • Staff
  • Teaching
  • University
  • Music

Course programme

Spanish was first taught at King’s in 1831, only two years after the College’s foundation, and the teaching of Portuguese in British universities was pioneered by King’s in the 1860s. Since the establishment of the Cervantes Chair in 1916 and the Camoens Chair in 1919, the College has become a world-leading centre for Spanish and Portuguese studies and the creation of the new Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies continues this tradition of innovation and research strength. The Department offers a wide range of opportunities for specialist and cross-disciplinary supervision, from the medieval period to the present day, in literature, history, cultural studies, film, drama and music. Our commitment to all areas of Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Latin America and Lusophone Africa, combined with the wide-ranging teaching and research interests of the staff, means that we are able to offer an unrivalled variety of supervision topics for postgraduate study.

You can discover more about the research interests of particular members of staff in the Department on their staff profiles. Dissemination of our research takes a number of forms, which include: enhancing publishing and programming of the arts, shaping critical practice in musical, visual and literary culture, and influencing public policy.

Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies has recently attracted major grants both from the Arts & Humanities Research Council and from UK-based charitable foundations like the Leverhulme for collaborative projects and research positions. In 2016 a team of academics led by Professor Catherine Boyle was awarded almost £3 million under the AHRC’s Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) for the Language Acts and Worldmaking project, to lead research that will seek to inform the future of the study and teaching of Modern Languages. You can find out more about the projects taking place in the Department on the Research Portal. Current projects include:

“‘Reindigenisation’ in the post-colonial Andes”, “The history of currency in pre-colonial Atlantic Africa”, “The reception in late medieval and early modern Spain of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus”, “Culture of the Spanish transition to democracy”, “Brazilian song in translation”.

Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Research

Price on request