Postgraduate research in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Our postgraduate research students benefit from supervision across a range of fields, covering a broad range of research specialisms in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking world.

Our team's research interests include:

• History
• Nation
• Culture and language
• Colonialism
• Travel
• Migration
• Diaspora
• Transnationalism
• Postcoloniality
• Gender, sexuality and race
• Early Medieval and the Golden Age
• Translation studies
• Interpreting studies

See our Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies staff list

Here's what some of our current students are researching:

• Emma Greenaway: 'Against all Odds: Property trends of mestiza women in the Yucatan and Mexico City, 1700-1770'
• Julien Alzamora Candenado - 'Panama as a Point of Transit: Identity and Memory Practice'
• Dylan Bradbury - 'Aural media as a Tool for the Consolidation of Identity: Mapuche Uses of Sound for Asserting Cultural and Territorial Autonomy'

Here are some themes that previous postgraduate research students have researched:

• Gabriel Neiva - 'The Literary Space of Guianas: The Topos of Kanaima in its Fictional Narratives'
• Mauricio S. Soares de Oliveira - 'The Construction of a City: Salvador in the Writings of Jorge Amado'
• Eleanor K. Jones - 'Out of the Iron House: Deconstructing Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican National Literature'
• Xime Castillo-Smyntek - The Role of the Mass Media in Contemporary Chilean Film: The Video 'Panamericangea' by Jandy C.S.G'
• Miquel Pomar-Amer - 'Diasporic Narratives of the Household: A Comparative Study of Writings by Catalan-Moroccan and British Pakistani Authors during the Last Decade'
• Alina Rzepnikowska - 'Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Societies: Narratives of Polish Migrants in Britain and Spain'
• Gustavo Carvajal - 'Palabra de mujer: Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction'.
• Nicola Astudillo-Jones - 'Film Festivals and Magical Realism in Manchester'.
• Kristina Pla Fernández - 'The Early Works of Bolaño and Vila-Matas: Alternatives to the 'Cultura de la transición''
• Tamara De Inés Antón - 'Female Identity, Body and Sexuality through Literature and Translation: Contemporary Latin American Women's Narratives'
• Maria Romero Caro - 'Peace Education in Colombia'
• Suzan Bozkurt - 'Beyond the Mirror: Mechanisms of Transgressing the Canon in the Fiction of Contemporary Portuguese Women Writers (1980-2010)'
• Mary Farrelly - 'Infinite Elasticity: Mapping the Moving Spaces of Spanish Women's Enclosure.'
• Rodrigo Lopez Martinez - 'Literature, State, Nation: Poetics of Exile as Challenges to Latin-American National Literacy Tradition'
• Carole Myers - 'Representation, Reception and Appropriation of Ideal Female Beauty: Cosmetic Erasure of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil'
• Nicola Runciman - 'Post-National Landscapes of the Novísimo Cine Chileno'
• María Montt Strabucchi - 'Representations of China in Contemporary Latin American Literature'
• Nicola Tomlinson - 'Reel Regions: Mapping the Trajectories of the Cinema Industries in Catalonia and Andalusia post-2007'