PhD research opportunities

We aim to recruit outstanding research students who make an important contribution to the research culture of the department.

We provide a rich and lively scholarly environment in which to conduct doctoral research work. Our students have received funding from a range of funding sources, and we continue to attract funding for our University of London MPhil/PhD degrees.

Subject areas

Supervision at MPhil and PhD level is offered in all the main areas of Spanish and Latin American culture. Subjects include:

• Portuguese and Spanish imperial history, including early modern Asia
• The colonial literature of Latin America, including native American texts
• The visual art of Renaissance Spain
• Colonial Mexican art
• Discourse analysis and sociopragmatics of Spanish
• Modern Spanish cultural history and cultural politics
• Film and visual arts of modern Spain, Portugal and Latin America
• Modern Portuguese political culture and intellectual history
• Modern Latin American cultural and literary theory and political thought
• Latin American poetry and poetics
• Brazilian and Portuguese visual geography and material culture.

Find out more about our staff research interests and current student research topics.