Program Overview
Overview
If you're interested in an MLitt in Latin American Studies, we offer expert supervision in the following areas of Latin American studies:
Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American cultural history and popular culture (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Morgan, Dr Oliart, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza)
Historical and contemporary discourses of race and identity in Latin America (Dr Oliart, Dr Morgan, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza, Prof Hentschke, Dr Borea)
Spanish American and Spanish Caribbean Latin American film, literature, and theatre (Dr Page, Dr Fehimović)
Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and film (Dr Beleza)
History of education in 19th and 20th-century Latin America (Prof Hentschke, Dr Oliart)
Youth cultures and social movements, music and politics (Dr Oliart, Dr Beleza)
Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American novels (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Beleza)
Political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone (Prof Hentschke)
Linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Latin America (Dr Cru)
Diachronic Spanish syntax, Old Spanish, language change, and quantitative historical linguistics (Prof Mackenzie)
Catalan nationalism (Dr Catalá-Carrasco)
Film, literature and popular culture of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas (Dr Fehimović)
Lusophone environmental Humanities (Dr Beleza)
Latin American art, cultural policies, museums and material culture (Dr Borea)
Indigenous cultures, Amazon and Andes (Dr Borea)
Territory, place-making and cities in Latin America (Dr Borea, Dr Morgan)
The Latin American Studies MLitt course is well suited as preparation for PhD research.
Our Modern Languages research staff work in diverse fields. This ranges from sociocultural, historical and political studies to film and literature, linguistics and sociolinguistics.
You'll benefit from the School's strong links with interdisciplinary research centres and groups, including:
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Research Centre for Film
Gender Research Group
Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Postcolonial Research Group
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