Current research students’ topics
We have a strong postgraduate research community, with projects covering many different areas of research in the field of Latin American and Iberian studies.
Outlined below are a number of research topics currently being studied by our students.
- Sara Albuquerque: Historical botany of Brazil
- Alethia Alfonso: The intermedial poetry and poetics of Augusto de Campos and Jorge Eduardo Eielson
- Lisa Blackmore: Constructing modernity in 1950s Caracas
- Leonardo Boix: Intellectuals and culture in transition: Argentinian cultural journals 1973-1989
- Constanza Ceresa: Poetry and films in 1990s Chile and Argentina: perception, the Subject, and the city
- Peter Cooke: The political philosophy of 19c Spanish liberal exiles
- Mariana Cunha: Framing and narrative of migration in Brazilian film
- José María Hernández: A comparative study of colonial images of the Americas and of Africa
- Alexandra Hibbett: Memory and hegemony in narratives and images of the conflict between Shining Path and the State in Peru
- Marcia Hoppe: The form development of women’s novels in Latin America
- Molly Jackson: Narrative of drugs and violence in Colombia
- Amanda Lower: Doing sociability on Facebook in the Spanish-speaking world: a pragmatic study
- Nochola Mola: Antonio Munoz Molina and the public intellectual
- Patricia Montenegro: Construction of queer identities in Peronist Argentina
- Cristina Nordenstahl: Race and gender in captivity writing in 19c Argentina
- Victoria Poland: 19c maps of the Argentinian frontier and the formation of the nation-state
- Jemma Pym: Urban social geography and state formation in 20c Dominican Republic
- Janet Ravenscroft: Invisible friends: questioning the reproduction of the court dward if early modern Spain
- Oscar Salgado: The poetics of Julián Ríos: towards an interactive work
- Antonio Sánchez: Modernity and romanticism in Bécquer and Martí’s poetry
- Patricia Sequeira Braz: Representations of the urban spaces of Lisbon in Portuguese film
- Richard Tilbury: The war of images: representations of the ‘Black legend’.
Find out more about MPhil/PhD research opportunities in the department.
