Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

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Graduates

Funding: AHRC

Applicants for the AHRC studentship must be British citizens (in which case they are eligible for fees + maintenance) or EU citizens (in which case they are eligible for fees only).

Applicants who intend to apply for the AHRC studentship should apply for a place on the doctoral programme of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies before the deadline for submitting an application for the AHRC studentship. For more information including how to apply, please click here.

Funding: UCL Graduate School

Students who are in receipt of the offer of admission for an M.Phil/PhD degree programme in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies or who are currently registered on an M.Phil/PhD degree programme in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies are eligible to apply for a UCL Graduate Research Scholarship. For more information on how to apply for this scholarship, click here.

For more general information on funding for postgraduate research see funding.

Research

We are able to offer supervision to suitably qualified research students for MPhil and PhD degrees in any of the following fields:

• Early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, history and culture, including the Golden Age comedia (Dr A Samson)
• Anglo-Spanish literary and political relations 1500 – 1640, especially translation (Dr A Samson)
• 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature (Dr G Wood , Dr J Evans)
• The novel of the Restoration period in Spain (Dr G Wood)
• Contemporary Spanish fiction/translation (Dr G Wood)
• Spanish film (Dr J Evans)
• 19th- and 20th-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America (Dr C Lindsay)
• 19th- and 20th-century Spanish-American literature (Professor S Hart, Dr C Lindsay, Dr H Núñez-Faraco)
• Spanish American essay writers (Dr H Núñez-Faraco)
• Latin American film (Dr C Lindsay, Dr Deborah Martin)
• Latin American film and documentary (Professor S Hart)
• Latino Studies (Dr C Lindsay)
• Migration, mobility and space (Dr J Evans, Dr C Lindsay)

We would normally expect applicants for the MPhil/PhD programme to be in possession of an MA qualification in either Hispanic Studies or a related subject (see entry requirements).

Doctoral students are able to choose between the text-only track or the documentary-track PhD. For a description of the documentary-track PhD, click on Documentary-track PhD. If you are interested in applying for this new track PhD, please contact  Professor Stephen Hart.

Application procedure

For more information on the application process for a doctoral degree, click here.

Taught graduate

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies offers a one-year (or two-year part-time) taught MA degree programme. For more information see

MA Language, Culture, History: Hispanic Studies

For more information on the admission process to the the MA in LCH: Hispanic Studies, click here.