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Spanish Program

Postgraduate Studies

The Spanish Program provides students with the opportunity to further their studies in the literatures, cultures, and languages of Peninsular Spain, Latin America, Portugal, or Brazil. Within these broad areas of study, staff have a variety of more specialised interests that are reflected both in their teaching and in their research. Areas of specialisation include:

  • modern and contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature and culture, in particular Cuban and Colombian
  • Portuguese literature
  • Lusophone African literatures
  • comparative European literatures
  • the regions of Spain
  • the cultures and civilisations of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

The Program is actively committed to promoting an environment of scholarly achievement and supports students with supervision only by those with expertise in the field; a weekly postgraduate work-in-progress seminar; research completion and publication incentives; an environment of staff-student collegiality through seminars, shared work spaces and common facilities. The Program arranges regular seminars, including students, staff and visitors, where postgraduate students have the opportunity to present their research.

Postgraduate degrees
Postgraduate levels of study available at La Trobe University.

Support for your Postgraduate Research

The Spanish Program allows postgraduate students to become part of a unique research community with seminars, conference and publication opportunities.

Applications for candidature

Prospective students may apply at any time. Inquiries should be made through the the Postgraduate Coordinator and applications through the Research and Graduate Studies Office.

Scholarships

Australian and New Zealand scholarship applicants must submit their forms to the Research and Graduate Studies Office. International scholarship applicants must submit their application to the International Programs Office. Please check scholarships pages for application dates and deadlines. Students may also apply for a range of grants and awards to help fund their studies including: research grants, publication awards and thesis completion awards. 

La Trobe International

Details of a range of options available to students from overseas and to Australian students wishing to study abroad. Overseas applicants wishing to apply for scholarships should contact La Trobe International in the first instance.

Supervisors

Supervisor Research Interests Campus
Dr Ana Maria Ducasse Nature of spoken language by adult learners and in particular the testing of interaction in Spanish. Melbourne (Bundoora)
Dr Isabel Moutinho Contemporary Portuguese fiction; postcolonial literatures; African fiction from the Portuguese-speaking countries; Latin American literature. Melbourne (Bundoora)
Dr Carlos Uxo Gonzalez Cuban literature and socioeconomic context in the Special Period; pedagogy of Spanish as a second language; fiction by Carmen Martín Gaite. Melbourne (Bundoora)

Postgraduate Coordinator

Dr Nicole Prunster
613 9479 2422
n.prunster@latrobe.edu.au

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Last Updated: 16 October, 2009

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