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The Hispanic Consortium

In 1987 our Department reached agreement with the Spanish Department at Birkbeck College to establish and academic Consortium with the aim of achieving greater efficiency in the field of Hispanic Studies in the Bloomsbury area of London, where both departments are situated in close proximity. At present the Consortium comprises four part-time and ten full-time members, including four specialists in Latin American literature.

Students registered in our Department may complete the required number of course units by following appropriate courses at Birkbeck College, where teaching takes place in the evening. The following are course units offered by Birkbeck College:

B CoursesCourse Units
Medieval Love Poetry1.0
Medieval Romances1.0
Heroes and Saints1.0
The Idiom of Love and the Major Poets of the Golden Age1.0
Women in the Prose and Drama of the Golden Age1.0
Cervantes1.0
Culture and Society in Modern Spain1.0
The Problem of National Identity in Modern Spain1.0
Myth in Modern Latin American Fiction1.0
Chronicals and Testimonials1.0
Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Latin America1.0
Literature and the Nation in Latin America1.0
Power and Control in Golden Age Art1.0

The Hispanic Consortium Joint-Teaching Programme

All A and B courses taught at UCL and Birkbeck College Spanish Departments have recently been incorporated into a Joint-Teaching Programme which is available to students from either Department. The scheme has been so devised as to permit UCL students to base their entire programme exclusively on courses taught during the daytime. If they so wish they may also take advantage of the expanded teaching programme by choosing some courses taught in the evening. Every academic year the Joint-Teaching Programme will have on offer a minimum of four A courses and six B courses. To maximise choice of topics, B courses will change from year to year, according to a three-year cycle.

Consortium Programme: Birkbeck College Lecturers

Professor R M Walker
teaches courses in medieval literature, including specialised options in Medieval Love Poetry, and Medieval Romances. He has published Tradition and Technique in El libro del Cavallero Zifar, Estoria de Santa Maria Egipciaca, El Cavallero Plácidas, and a series of articles on the Poema de mio Cid, the Libro de buen amor, and other medieval Spanish and French texts. His research interests include medieval Spanish and French epic, romance, hagiography, and Portuguese literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Professor J M Labanyi
teaches courses in modern Spanish and Latin American literature, including specialised options in Myth in Modern Latin American Fiction, and National Identity in Modern Spain. She has published Ironía e historia en Tiempo de silencio and Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, various articles on Spanish and Latin American fiction and autobiography, and has translated several work of Latin American fiction. Her research interests include narrative theory, film, literature and art of the Spanish Civil War, and women's studies.

Dr J Kraniauskas
teaches courses in Latin American culture, including a specialised option in Literature and the Nation in Latin America. His PhD thesis was entitled 'Reflections on the nation-state: politics and culture in A Roa Bastos'. Roa Bastos is a writer on whom he has published. His research interests include the history of ideas, social and political theory, film and cultural history.

Dr C Fracchia
teaches courses on Spanish painting of the Golden Age.

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