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Spanish
Spanish
College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies,
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Course overview
Spanish offers supervision in a number of areas of interest in both Spain and Latin America. Admission to a research degree is at the discretion of the potential supervisor and the Head of Discipline; it is based on a proposal from the applicant, following discussion with the staff member whose academic area of interest is most appropriate.
Programmes available
MLitt (Spanish), full-time
MLitt (Spanish), part-time
MLitt (Spanish), part-time
Areas of interest
Dr. Mel Boland
Linguistics; Latin American literature; translation studies.
Dr. Lorraine Kelly
Modern Latin American Literature; Mexican women writers; Contemporary Latin American Studies.
Dr. Kate Quinn
Southern Cone literature and politics; history and theory of the detective genre in Spain and Latin America; historical narrative.
Prof. Bill Richardson
Spanish language and linguistics; Spanish-English translation; Spanish Second Language Acquisition; deictic reference in Spanish and English; the works of Jorge Luis Borges; the links between language, culture and cognition.
Dr. Lorna Shaughnessy
Modern Spanish poetry; Modern Latin American poetry; political writing from Central America; cultural theory and post-colonial literatures; women⦡mp;euro;?s movements and popular culture in Central America.
Researcher profiles
Contact Us
Prof. Bill Richardson
T +353 91 492 136
E bill.richardson@nuigalway.ie
www.nuigalway.ie/spanish
