King's College London

Program Information

Degree Offered

MPhil/PhD

Format: Campus

Program Description:

Spanish was first taught at King’s in 1831, only two years after the College’s foundation, and the teaching of Portuguese in British universities was pioneered by King’s in the 1860s. Since the establishment of the Cervantes Chair in 1916 and the Camoens Chair in 1919, the College has become a world-leading centre for Spanish and Portuguese studies and the creation of the new Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies continues this tradition of innovation and research strength. The Department offers a wide range of opportunities for specialist and cross-disciplinary supervision, from the medieval period to the present day, in literature, history, cultural studies, film, drama and music. Our commitment to all areas of Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Latin America and Lusophone Africa combined with the wide-ranging teaching and research interests of the staff, means that we are able to offer an unrivalled variety of supervision topics for postgraduate study.

The Department currently hosts the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded collaborative project "Out of the Wings: Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation", and from 2004-2007 the collaborative project “Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic” was led by staff members of the Department.

Members of the Department co-edit the journal Portuguese Studies, founded in 1985 by Helder Macedo, former Camoens Professor of Portuguese.

Individual staff research interests include:
Spanish and Catalan Literature and literary theory from the medieval through the modern periods; popular Spanish cinema, Spanish Surrealism in comparative context, and Spanish linguistics
Portuguese literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portuguese intellectual and cultural history, and Islam; Lusophone African history; Afro-Brazilian culture and politics
Spanish American, Hispanic and Portuguese theatre; colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American literature and history; Spanish American poetry and visual arts; Brazilian popular music
Literary translation

Accreditation:

Accredited University

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No