Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages

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The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages offers courses in all areas of Iberian and Latin American literatures and Hispanic linguistics leading to the Ph.D. degree.

Major movements and literary genres—epic, drama, lyric poetry, novel, and essay—are studied in their historical, ideological, and cultural contexts from their origins through the Renaissance, the early modern period, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. In tracing the development of Latin American literatures, emphasis is placed on the relationship with Spain and Portugal, on the influence of other European literatures, on the influence of indigenous cultures, and on the fusion of these and other elements in contemporary texts. The program is committed to such fields of study as women’s writing, gay and lesbian studies, and feminist theory, as well as Hispanic literature in the United States, and has also strengthened its offerings in philology, poetics, rhetoric, literary history, literary theory and methods of criticism, and bibliographical studies and theories of textual criticism.

In the Hispanic linguistics track, students are introduced to major areas in the field. At the advanced level they can pursue research in phonology, grammar, or lexis, and focus on the study of Spanish in its cultural, historical, and social context.