Oscar Salgado
MPhil/PhD Spanish and Latin American Studies
When Oscar started his BA, he wasn't intending to go on to further study, but he is now doing his MPhil/PhD at Birkbeck:
'When I started my BA at Birkbeck, I was not planning to do an MA or a PhD, but the involvement of the tutors and the course subjects gave me the opportunity to implement the curiosity of questioning new approaches to critical writing. These fertile discoveries led one course magnetically onto the next one.
'I came from the film-editing world, but literature and creative writing had always been a parallel practice. I thought that by exploring certain aspects of the literary expression more in-depth, I could gain not only another dimension to refer to when confronted with a text in all its complexities but, most fundamentally, investigate aspects of reading critically between the lines.
'The tutors became a reference point. They allowed and, most importantly, encouraged me to explore my interest while giving me precise guidance.'
