PhD in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies

Sabrina Thompson, ‘Scenes of childbirth in Brazilian and British media: from the objectified to the politicized body’.

Ellen Jones, 'Code-switching and translation: literary multilingualism in contemporary fiction' (co-supervised with Dr Rachael Gilmour, School of English and Drama). Funded, Principal's Open Studentship.

Spanish Literature & History

Catherine Maguire, ‘The (De)construction of the Maternal Subject in Early Modern Spain’, funded by the Wellcome Trust.

D.L. Reid, ‘A Society in Transition: Jews in the Kingdom of Castile from Settlement to Expulsion (1248–1492)’.

Arianna Bassetti, 'Scribbles from the Front Line: Witnessing War, Migration and Violence in Contemporary Graphic Narrative', funded, Principal's studentship. [Comparative Literature].

Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro, 'The Lesbian Text: Fantasy, Fetish and Queer Temporalities in Hispanic Contemporary Voices', funded, Principal's studentship.

Aitor Rey, 'Jorge Oteiza's Oeuvre: The Intersection of Art, Poetry and Theory'.

Catalan Studies

Laura Soler González, 'The use of humour and irony in the narrative of Pere Calders' (co-supervised with Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (Birkbeck)).

Richard Huddleson, 'Translating Queer, Catalan Theatre for the Irish Stage' (working title).

Linguistics, Language Teaching & Translation Studies

David McDougall, 'Linguistic Variation in the Fazienda de Ultra Mar'.

Isabel García Ortiz, 'Medical vocabulary in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish'.

Melisa Rinaldi, ‘Bare singular nominals’.

Latin American Studies

Miguel Arnedo, ‘Writing Rumba: A Study of the Afrocubanista Poetic Movement (1928-1938)’ (2003).

Azuvia Licón Villapando, ‘Leer la prensa. Edición, autoría y público lector en Soledad Acosta de Samper’ (Co-supervised with University of Los Andes) (2017).

Ángela Dorado Otero, ‘Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s’ (2011).

Annabel Cox, ‘Cuban-American Literature of the One Point Generation: Migration and Cultural Identity’, Draper’s Award & AHRC funded (2006).

Sônia Schwendler, ‘Women’s Emancipation through Participation in Land Struggle: Brazil and Chile’ (2013).

Lisandra Sousa, ‘Protean Ulyssisms in Portuguese Modernism: Reconceptualizations of Nationhood and Interactions with Brazil’ (2016).

Lusophone Studies

Fabrício Tavares de Moraes, ‘O fim do romance? Espaço e tempo como recurso de renovação estética em Lobo Antunes’ (co-supervision, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil) (2016).

Eduardo Batista, ‘Poética da representação cultural: relações teóricas entre literatura de viagem e tradução literária’ (co-supervision, Universidade de Campinas) (2010).

Catalan Studies

Noelia Díaz-Vicedo, ‘Constructing Feminine Poetics in the Works of a Late 20th Century Catalan Woman Poet: Maria-Mercè Marçal’ (2011).

Katharine Ruth Eaton (Kate Eaton), ‘False Alarms and False Excursions: Translating Virgilio Piñera for Performance’ (co-supervised with Prof. Maria Delgado, Drama Dept.) (2012).

Theatre

Simon Breden, ‘Beyond the Playwright: The Creative Process of Els Joglars and Teatro de la Abadía’ (co-supervised with Prof. Maria Delgado, Drama Dept.) (2009).

Alejandro Melero Salvador, ‘Refiguring Sexual Politics: The Film Narratives of the Spanish Transition to Democracy’ (2007).

Film & Photography

Dominika Gasiorowski, ‘Representing Mexican Otherness: Subalternity in Maya Goded’s Socially Engaged Photodocumentary’ (2014).

Anna Hillman, ‘Carnivals of Transition: Cuban and Russian Film (1960-2000)’ (co-supervised with Dr. Jeremy Hicks, Russian Dept) (2012).

Miranda Shaw, ‘The Retomada and Beyond: Female Narrative Agency in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema’ (2010).

Linguistics, Language Teaching & Translation Studies

James Hawkey, 'Language Policy and Language Contact in Barcelona: A Contemporary Perspective' (2012).

Ángel Osle Ezquerra, 'The Speech Intelligibility of English Learners of Spanish at Key Stage 4' (2013).