We have strong research specialisms in
We welcome PhD applications across all of these areas. (Please note the Department's interests are very broad and if you have a project in an area not mentioned please get in touch and discuss with us.)
Research takes place within subject areas and in interdisciplinary clusters and research centres:
Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations
Centre for Catalan Studies
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Centre for the History of Emotions
Centre for Poetry (co-directed by Omar Garcia, with Prof. Susan Rudy from the School of English and Drama)
Our various subject areas run many research events seminar series as well as occasional research events, and many also organize yearly named lectures:
Iberian and Latin American Studies Seminar
Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar
BASF Lecture Series on Anglo-German Matters
Anglo-German Research Colloquium
Queen Mary Catalan Seminars (Centre for Catalan Studies)
Translation, Transmission and Cultural Transfer, jointly organised with the Department of Comparative Literature
Visual & Material Forum, jointly organized with the School of History