Course Overview
The Portuguese MLitt comprises taught and research-based elements, allowing you to focus in-depth on one aspect of Portuguese studies. Topics available include linguistics, culture, history, and politics of Latin America, the Spanish novel, and Latin American film.
The School of Modern Languages research staff work in a diverse range of fields from sociocultural, historical, and political studies, to film and literature, linguistics, and sociolinguistics. We offer expert supervision in the following areas:
anthropology, anthropological linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Latin America, including Quechua language (Prof Howard)
semantics, philosophy of language, history, and spread of Spanish in Latin America, Latin American dialects, and Creole (Prof Mackenzie)
the political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Brazil and Southern Cone (Prof Hentschke)
history of education in Latin America in 19th and 20th century Latin America (Prof Hentschke, Dr. Oliart, Prof Howard)
discourses of race and identity in Latin America (Prof Howard, Dr. Oliart, Dr. Morgan)
Latin American film, literature, and theatre (Dr. Page)
Spanish and Latin American cultural history and popular culture (Dr. Catala Carracso, Dr. Morgan, Dr. Oliart, Dr. Fernández)
Catalan nationalism (Dr Catala-Carrasco)
Spanish novel (Dr Catala Carrasco).