Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

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Funding: AHRC

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies is pleased to announce that it has been awarded one fully-funded three-year AHRC doctoral studentship under the Block Grant Partnership to commence on 1 October 2012 (subject to final ratification by the UCL AHRC Block Grant Management Committee). The field of the doctoral studentship is open within Hispanic Studies/Latin American Studies. 

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 information on how to apply, please click here.

If you wish to apply for the AHRC doctoral studentship in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies beginning on 1 October 2012, please send a description of your proposed research project (maximum 1,000 words), along with two letters of reference, by 5.00pm on 1 February 2012 to Professor Stephen Hart (stephen.malcolm.hart@ucl.ac.uk). You may use the same letters of reference provided in your application to UCL Admissions. In order to be eligible to apply, you must have already received an offer from UCL Admissions to embark on a course of doctoral study in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies or you must have already submitted an application to UCL admissions by the deadline of by 5.00 pm on 1 February 2012.

If you will have completed the first year of your doctoral research by 1 October 2012 you are eligible to apply for a 2-year AHRC doctoral studentship beginning on that date. In this case you must include a description of your research project which indicates the progress you have made in your first year (maximum 1,000 words). You should also include with your application two letters of reference, one of which must be a letter written by your supervisor describing the progress you have made in your first year. Applications should be sent to Professor Stephen Hart (stephen.malcolm.hart@ucl.ac.uk) by 5.00 pm on 1 February 2012.

Third-year doctoral candidates are not eligible for an AHRC Block Grant award.

Interviews will be held in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies on Thursday 22 March 2012. The Department's nomination is subject to ratification by the UCL AHRC Block Grant Management Committee.

If you have any questions, please email Professor Stephen Hart at stephen.malcolm.hart@ucl.ac.uk

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 M Blanco, Dr C Lindsay, Dr H Núñez-Faraco)
• Spanish American essay writers (Dr H Núñez-Faraco)
• Latin American film ( Dr M Blanco, Dr C Lindsay)
• Latin American film and documentary (Professor S Hart)
• Latino Studies (Dr M Blanco, Dr C Lindsay)
• Hemispheric American Studies (Dr M Blanco)
• Migration, mobility and space (Dr M Blanco, 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

We interview all suitable home candidates for research programmes or, in the case of international applicants, may arrange for a telephone interview (see Frequently Asked Questions page).

To 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.