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:

• 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'
• Stephanie Burgess - 'In search of Spain's Riot Grrrls: The impact of feminism on the Spanish alternative music scene, 1975-2020'
• Taylor Elton - 'Manifestaciones through flamenco: How flamenco developed into a vehicle for political and social protest from the mid-twentieth century'
• Maria Fiore Burgos - 'Flamenco and Social Integration: Emerging Flamenco Pedagogies in Urban Spaces and Digital Platforms by Marginalised Groups'
• 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'
• Lisa Simpson - 'Non-Human Animals, Violence and Power in Brazilian Literature and Film 1960 to the Present Day'

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.'
• 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'