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

• 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 

•    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
• Gender in 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