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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Research in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Latin American Studies

Research areas in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Latin American Studies.

  • Cuban literature, film, art, and culture
  • Exile and Diaspora Studies
  • Cultural memory: language, literature, oral history, identity, and the State in Latin America
  • Central American Studies
  • Poetry and Poetics of Cultural Resistance
  • Transnational and multilingual perspectives in terms of culture, migration, and cultural production under duress
  • Gender, Sexuality and the State
  • Brazilian Literary Production Abroad
  • Brazilian Cinema and World Cities (Rio and São Paulo)
  • Gender in Latin American Cinema
  • Contemporary Mexican Theatre
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Cultural History and History of Ideas
  • Latin American Cultural Theory

  • Cultural memory: language, literature, oral history, identity, and the State in Spain
  • Medieval and early modern history of the emotions comparative history of madness (Spain, France and England, 1200-1900)
  • The writings of Juan Luis Vives, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Mateo Alemán and Cervantes and their translations in early modern France and England
  • Autobiographical writing (from medieval women’s autobiographies and letters to soldiers’ letters and diaries from the First World War)
  • Travel writing
  • Twentieth-century art and literature in historical context
  • Fascist culture (Spain, Germany and Italy)
  • Gender, ethnicity, and cultural identity in contexts of mobility and displacement
  • Representations of migration in cultural media, especially photography, film and music

  • Twentieth and twenty-first century Catalan literature
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Art
  • Linguistic policy
  • Translation 

  • Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Drama
  • Comparative European Theatre

  • Cuban film
  • Brazilian Cinema and World Cities (Rio and São Paulo)
  • Lusophone African Cinema
  • Documentary Photography from Spain, Latin America and other regions
  • Latin American Cinema
  • Cinematic treatments of medieval subjects

  • Second language acquisition
  • Identity & language
  • Applied linguistics
  • E-learning
  • Translation 
  • Inclusive Language Education
  • Digital technology
  • ELE (research on Spanish as a Foreign Language)
  • Multilingualism
  • Pedagogic Translation
  • Audiovisual translation in language teaching
  • Catalan and Spanish as a foreign and second language
  • Learned borrowing in the Romance languages
  • Linguistic register in the history of Spanish
  • Romance historical syntax
  • Brazilian Cinema              
  • Brazilian Cultural Studies
  • Brazilian Literary Production Abroad
  • Brazilian World Cities (Rio and São Paulo)
  • Lusophone African Cinema
  • Translation Studies
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