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Research Students

The Department has expanded its postgraduate research community during the last few years. Our research students are encouraged to present conference papers and publish their findings. Susana Lorenzo was awarded a PhD in 2002 for her dissertation on Teatro Espanol de Autoria Feminia: La Dramaturgia de Yolanda Pallin. She is now a Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University and recently published an article on Avante Garde Metatheatre in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (July 2002).

The following are currently registered as postgraduate students in the Department:

  • Stephen Pearson (PhD) ‘Post-Modern Spanish Writing and the Impact of ‘Generation X’
  • Gabrielle Vernon (PhD) ‘Christian Democracy in Spain’
  • Jose Fuentetaja (PhD) ‘Cinema and Spain: Region and Nation in Film and Democracy’
  • Philip Morris (PhD) ‘Metafiction and the Metaphysical in the Films of Julio Medem’
  • John Cottam (PhD) ‘The Detective Novel as a Political Device: the Case of Manuel Vasquez Montalban’s
    Serie Carvalho’
  • Maritza Carrasco-Marchessi (MPhil) ‘Taming the beast, Releasing the Man: Women as Rite of Passage in Antonio
    Skarmeta’s Uno a Uno’
  • Emma Leather ‘Time, Memory and the Human Gaze
    in the Films of José Luis Guerin and Marc Recha’

Candidates may apply for a limited number of bursaries and scholarships. Students may register full-time (3 years for PhD and 2 years for MPhil), or part-time study. A taught MA course (MA European Languages, Cultures and Society is offered by the Department of Languages.