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Hispanic Studies MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Hispanic Studies subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Hispanic Studies
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of European Culture and Languages
- Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject (eg Hispanic Studies) or equivalent, and a good working level of Spanish. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Staff are concerned with modern Hispanic studies, with two experts in Peninsular studies and two Latin American specialists. The section's range of interests covers contemporary Spanish drama, film and poetry; the avant-garde and modern Spanish visual culture; Catalan studies; Peninsular cultural studies and cultural theory; Latin American literature, including poetry, history, culture and politics, in particular the Republican Andes; Cuban literature, film and visual art.
Research students need to demonstrate competence in Spanish (and Catalan if relevant).
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
As a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Block Grant Partnership, SECL offers AHRC postgraduate studentships in the field of European Culture and Languages (either for a taught MA or for a PhD). The School also offers a limited number of postgraduate scholarships for research students each year; students holding these awards are expected to contribute to their subject area by doing up to six hours of teaching per week. Studentships and scholarships are advertised in January for a September start.
Vacancies exist for language assistants in French, Spanish, Italian and German. These generally involve around ten hours of teaching per week, for which there is an hourly payment; assistants also receive a 50% contribution towards the fees for one of our taught MA programmes. Assistantships are advertised in January for a September start. The School also provides funds for research students to attend conferences, as well as for inter-library loans and minor expenses related to research.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see the following web-pages:
- Graduate funding
- AHRC grants
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View further information about scholarships available in the School of European Culture and Languages.
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Resources and facilities
The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in all our areas of research interest, with particular strengths in modern European literature. The School of European Culture and Languages provides high-quality facilities in IT, with state-of the- art language laboratories, dedicated technical staff and designated areas for postgraduate study.
Language-learning and translation facilities include eight all-purpose teaching rooms, two networked multimedia laboratories, and a streamed film library as well as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction facilities. The University of Kent's location is the best in Britain for students who need to visit not only the British Library (London) but also the major libraries and research centres on the continent.
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Research centre
Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS)
Founded in 2007, the Centre aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic research and teaching. Membership includes not just linguists within SECL but also researchers in classics, philosophy, computing, psychology and anthropology, reflecting the many and varied routes by which individuals come to a love of language and the various disciplines and sub-disciplines of linguistics. Kent provides academic progression in linguistics from undergraduate to graduate levels (taught and research MA, MPhil and PhD) with CLLS offering supervision and support in areas such as syntax, semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and stylistics. We run lectures, symposiums and workshops with experts from Kent and far beyond and have recently held the third of a series of biennial international conferences devoted to Interfaces in Language, with published proceedings.
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|Staff research
Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll: Senior Lecturer; Director of Graduate Studies
Spanish cultural studies and film studies, especially Spanish popular film; the development of film cultures in Spain (reception, consumption and fandom), and the cross-cultural dialogue between Spain and other world cinemas (international traditions of the horror genre, global psychotronic culture).
Dr Montserrat Roser-i-Puig: Senior Lecturer
Twentieth- and 21st-century Spanish (including Catalan) literature, especially poetry and theatre; the avant-garde movement; the Francoist period and the literature from the transition to democracy to the present day.
Dr William Rowlandson: Lecturer
Cuban art and culture, especially José Lezama Lima. The reception outside Cuba of visual and textual representations of the Cuban Revolution and the revolutionary era, in particular the notion of myth, and the creation of an exported national identity through processes of mythologisation. Also Latin American poets, and the prose and poetry of Borges.
Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea: Senior Lecturer; Head of Section
State formation and political culture in the Andes from the end of the colonial period throughout the 19th century, as well as issues of race, ethnicity and military culture in the 19th and 20th centuries in South America.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
Hispanic Studies School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 823205
E: a.lazaro-reboll@kent.ac.uk
Centre for English and World Languages
T: +44 (0)1227 824069
E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas
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