Department of Spanish and Latin America Studies

Postgraduate Courses

The research interests of the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at UCL are many and varied. Teachers are willing to supervise suitably qualified research students registered for MPhil and PhD degrees in all of the following fields:

areas of Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Spanish literature (Prof García)
the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish novel, twentieth-century Spanish fiction and travel writing (Dr Henn)
Spanish film and twentieth-century Spanish woment writers (Dr Evans)
feminist literary theory, nineteenth-century travel writing and Latin American fiction (Dr Denegri)
Spanish and Latin American surrealist poetry, nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientific and literary travel writing in Latin America (Mr Wilson)
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature, theatre in Spain's Golden Age, Cervantes (Dr Thacker)

The Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies contributes to the following one-year (or two-year, part-time taught MA degree programme that begins in September and ends the following September:

MA in Hispanic Studies

A student with a good BA degree in Hispanic Studies (or equivalent) will follow four areas of study:

1. A core course in Critical Approaches, to be examined by two essays of 3,000 to 4,000 words each to be submitted on the 1st May and the 1st July, one of which must be in English. This core course is taught intercollegiately in the evenings.

2&3. Two special subjects, to be examined as for the core course. The following specifically MA courses are normally available:

The Works of Cervantes (Dr Thacker)
Spanish Narrative - 1939 to the Present (Dr Henn)
The New Poetry in Spanish and/or Scientific and Literary Travellers in Latin America (Mr Wilson)
Women Writers and the Avant-garde in Latin America (Dr Denegri)

as well as a selection from the UCL and Birkbeck undergraduate courses on offer. A reading course proposed by the student, subject to the department's approval may, substitute one Special Subject.

4. A dissertation of 10,000-20,000 words, to be written in English or Spanish, and submitted at the end of the programme (1st September) on a literary topic agreed with the Departmental Graduate Adviser.

See the Graduate School pages to find out more about Postgraduate life at UCL.

For more information please write to Mr Jason Wilson, Postgraduate Adviser

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