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Postgraduate Study Members of staff are involved in teaching in the MLitt in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies and Visual Culture. Additional to AHRC awards and College open funding we have been successful in attracting postgraduate scholarships within the following College of Arts and Social Sciences research award project scheme: Translating Cultures: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in a World Context (Film Studies and Visual Culture, Modern Languages, History, Music and Sociology) and Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Violence (involving researchers from Anthropology, Modern Languages, Politics and International Relations and Sociology). The research profile and specific projects of our recent postgraduate cohort reflects the fact that members of staff engage with more than one frame of critical enquiry.
Our activity in Hispanic Studies is increasingly bound with the activities of the Centre for Modern Thought (Arruti, Biggane, Stack), of the Visual Culture Project (Arruti), and of the Literature in a World Context (Arruti, Biggane) programme within the School of Language and Literature. At College level the newly-established research Centre on Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law is directed by Dr Trevor Stack. These four interdisciplinary endeavours give ample opportunity and provide resources for intellectual and professional development both at the individual and at the institutional level coupled with a biannual system of internal research leaves.
In recent years we have organised a series of successful international workshops and conferences: in 2007 we organised the AHGBI Conference, in 2008 we organised in collaboration with the University at Buffalo an international workshop on New Paths in Political Philosophy, and, with the University of Murcia, a conference on Marrano Thought and one on Comparative Imperial Histories; in 2009 we hosted three successful international workshops last year (Spinoza, Jorge Oteiza, Martin Rejtman). We were also involved in a series of three workshops on Religious/Secular Distinctions that culminated in a major international conference in London in January 2010. The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law has also held a number of conferences (www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul).
In terms of impact the department has been successful in attracting a College of Arts and Social Sciences Cultural Engagement grant in order to establish a Spanish and Latin American Film Festival in 2008 in collaboration with the Belmont Cinema. We have been actively involved with the Word Festival since 2000 bringing a series of well-known Spanish and Latin American writers to Scotland. Within the Laboratory of Art project (Arruti) there is a collaborative partnership with the Peacock Art Gallery in Aberdeen. And finally, the Centre on Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law will host a series of events over the next five years, many of which will involve non-academics in law, business, public administration and consultancies such as the Overseas Development Institute.
We have a long-standing Hispanic Studies Visiting Lecture Series We view the Hispanic Studies Visiting Lecture Series as a forum that is not exclusively field-bound but can be a platform to stage critical interventions across another discipline, hence the interdisciplinary nature of our research profile is reflected in the fact that Hispanic Studies members of staff and postgraduates are also involved in the Visual Culture Group (amongst these the AHRC-funded postgraduate conference Rethinking Complicity and Resistance 2009 and the forthcoming conference on the Forgotten Voices of the Avant-Garde co-organised with the University of Leeds and Queen's University Belfast in 2011) and the newly-formed World Literatures Research Group and the renewed Scottish Word and Image network. We are part of a joint Leverhulme international network grant "Literature and Politics in pre-War Spain: Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936" with Edinburgh Nottingham, Salamanca, Deusto and UA Madrid.
Some of our current research students include:
Fiona Noble (Hispanic Studies, Film and Visual Culture): Fiona Noble is currently working towards her PhD in Hispanic Studies and Film & Visual Culture. Supervised by both departments, her research is partially funded by the University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences. Her thesis focuses on three key figures of post-Franco Spanish cinema: the child, the performer, and the immigrant; and is informed by questions pertaining to gender, queer theory, and nationhood.
Claudia Marques-Martin (Hispanic Studies/French): Claudia is currently working on a PhD on Fascist political activism amongst women during the Spanish Civil War contextualised in a European framework.
Ian Ross (Hispanic Studies, Film and Visual Culture): Further information on Ian Ross and his PhD project can be found here http://www.abdn.ac.uk/idav/researchers/ian-ross/
Graduate Research: PhD degrees awarded since 2001
www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/postgraduate/apply.shtml
Note: This link takes you directly to the Student Recruitment and Admissions Services web site. On this page there is a downloadable application form or you can apply online. If you have any specific enquiries regarding your application please contact Dr Trevor Stack. (t.stack@abdn.ac.uk)
For further information contact Dr Trevor Stack - t.stack@abdn.ac.uk.
See also the University's Postgraduate Prospectus
Hispanic Studies, School of Language & Literature
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