Research in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Latin American Studies

• Cuban literature, film, art, and culture
• Exile and Diaspora Studies
• Multilingualism, translation and Latino 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 literature, in particular by female writers
• 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 Criticism
• Race and Culture in Nineteenth Century Colombian thought
• Nineteenth-Century Colombian Literary Press

• 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 

• Censorship and drama production during Franco's regime in Spain
• 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

Dr Elena Carrera

• ‘Healing Passions: the role of the emotions in psychiatric care in Spain, France, and England, 1750-1900’, led by Elena Carrera, is a strand of the five-year interdisciplinary project ‘Living with Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience’ (October 2015-September 2020), funded by a £1.6m Wellcome Trust Humanities and Social Science Collaborative Award

Dr Patricia D’Allemand

• ‘Nineteenth-Century Colombian writers in the European and Latin American Press’ (with University of Los Andes, Colombia).
• ‘Hacia una historiografía literaria comparada de ambas Américas para el siglo XIX’ (with UNAM, Mexico).

Dr Mar Encinas-Puente

• Successful bids for HEFCE Student Opportunity Funding for Widening Access and Outreach activities: collaboration with the Sacred Heart Catholic School in the London Borough of Southwark.
• International Credit Mobility Grants between QMUL and our partner institutions in Mexico, Universidad de Guadalajara, and Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes.
• Editor of MLS-Educational Reseach ISSN: 2603-5820

Professor Omar García

• Cuban and Cuban-American Discourses of Sexuality in Transhemispheric Contexts: The Subject and the State.
• Fractal Aesthetics and Intersectionality: Text, Image, and Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean.
• Migrant Identities, Marginalization and Mental Health: Literary and Cultural Manifestations.
• Heterotopías: Fronteras de Resistencia Cultural.

Professor John London

• Comic theatre in Catalan.
• Translation, both verbal and intersemiotic. 

Dr Luisa Martí

• Grammatical number and bare nouns
• Indefinite scope in Russian
• Syntax and semantics of Imere

Professor Parvati Nair

• Socio-cultural aspects of human mobility, especially questions of plural societies, decent work and cities, with human rights, gender and technology as cross-cutting themes. United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM).
• Working Level Chair of the Global Migration Group, a forum of twenty-two agencies of the United Nations closely engaged in supporting the 193 Member States of the United Nations to shape and agree a global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration.

Professor Christopher Pountain

• Co-Investigator leading the 'Loaded Meanings' strand of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative project 'Language Acts and Worldmaking' (https://languageacts.org).
  Post-doctoral Research Assistant: Dr Bozena Wislocka Breit. 

Professor Else Vieira

• Research and Impact Project ‘Brazilian Writers Abroad’, funded over several years by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture; Dean’s Fund, The Federal University of Juiz de Fora; British Academy, 2016- [https://elements.qmul.ac.uk/viewobject.html?cid=2&id=389614; CAPES/Brazilian Ministry of Education, 2017- [https://elements.qmul.ac.uk/viewobject.html?cid=2&id=389685].
• ‘Gender and Education in Rural Areas in Brazil’ (2015-2017), funded by the Newton Trust and British Academy [http://landless-voices2.org/]. See British Academy [http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/recipients-prestigious-newton-advanced-fellowships-announced]

Dr Rosa Vidal Doval

• ‘An edition and translation of Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium fidei (1464)’, British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2017–19).

Dr Elina Vilar

• ‘Ready, steady ... film!’ https://www.elearning.capd.qmul.ac.uk/enhancing-your-teaching/e-learning-production-scheme/current-projects/

Current projects | E-Learning Unit

These are our current E-Learning Production Scheme projects. Click on the titles to find out more about them.

• ‘Pedagogical differentiation through telecollaboration and gaming for intercultural and content integrated language teaching’ https://sites.google.com/site/tecolaproject/

• Brazilian Cinema              
• Brazilian Cultural Studies
• Brazilian Literary Production Abroad
• Brazilian World Cities (Rio and São Paulo)
• Lusophone African Cinema
• Translation Studies