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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.

Book Cover, Escritores da diáspora Brasileira

•    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
•    Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literary History and Cultural Criticism
•    Race and Culture in Nineteenth Century Latin American thought

Book cover of Misera Hispana by Rosa Vidal Doval

  • Medieval Spanish history
  • Medieval anti-Semitism, conversos, religious polemics
  • Medieval preaching and sermons, religious conversion
  • 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 

Book Cover Teatro Hispánico y su puesta en escena by J. London

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

Book cover of Spanish Film, Theatre and Literature in the Twentieth Century

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

Book cover of Mundos en Palabras: Learning Advanced Spanish Through Translation

  • 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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