The department is well equipped to provide the highest quality teaching and supervision of postgraduate students, having been rated 5, the highest category, in the Research Assessment Exercise (R.A.E.) of 2001.

We offer a number of options for postgraduate study:

Taught Masters

These are taught collaboratively by the Languages Departments and include the following:

• M.A. in Latin American Studies  
• M.A. in Translation with Language Technology
• M.A. in Literary Translation 
• M.A. in European Literary and Cultural Studies  
• M.A. in Modernism(s)
  

Research Degrees

We offer the following schemes:

• M. Phil. (Thesis: word limit 60, 000 words)
• Ph.D.  (Thesis: word limit 100, 000 words)

 
Staff Research Interests

We are able to offer supervision in the following areas:

• Medieval Literature: the romancero
• Golden Age Drama
• Twentieth Century <!--[endif]-->Drama: spectacle and performance with special reference to García Lorca, Alberti,  Buero Vallejo.
• Catalan Theatre
• Prose Fiction: Novels of the Spanish Civil War
• Prose Fiction: Novels and Short Stories of Twentieth-Century Latin America (Allende, Borges, Céspedes, Rulfo, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Vargas  Llosa)
• History: National and Regional Identity in Post-Franco Spain
• The Economic History of Latin America, particularly of Chile
• Contemporary Spanish Film (in particular, theatricality and adaptation)

 We have supervised theses on the following topics in the last few years:

• Spanish Golden Age Drama: Calderón
• Modern Latin American Prose Fiction: Augusto Céspedes (Bolivia) and Angeles Mastretta (Mexico)
• History: Political Elites in Mexico
• Afro-Latin American Poetry

Translation Theory is also a growing research interest; we are currently contributing to the supervision of a Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘The Translation of Formulaic Language with Computer-Assisted Translation Tools’.
 
If you would like further information about M.A. Taught Masters Schemes or about M.Phil./Ph.D. supervision please contact the Postgraduate Coordinator: Dr L. H. Davies (L.H. Davies@swan.ac.uk)