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its subject areas. Research
students gain further academic
experience by giving research
talks in the Centre for Modern
European Literature or the Centre
for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Film and the Moving Image and
attending conferences.
Conferences
We encourage all of our
postgraduate students to
get involved in conferences.
Postgraduate students in Hispanic
Studies are actively involved in the
conferences organised by the
journal Skepsi (founded and run
by SECL postgraduate students).
Taught programmes
For the most up-to-date information,
see website details below.
The modules listed are subject
to change. Please contact
the School for more detailed
information on availability.
Assessment
For the most up-to-date information,
see website details below.
Hispanic and Comparative
Literature MA
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Location: Canterbury
This programme delves deeply
into the function and role of
literature in Spain, especially
within a wider European context.
You can also take other modules
offered within the Faculty of
Humanities, allowing you to
choose options according to
your interests, while reinforcing
your skills in a widely used world
language.
Course content
• Compulsory modules:
Comparative Literature in
Theory and Practice; History
and Memory; Spanish Cinema
• One optional module offered
by Comparative Literature,
see p70
• Dissertation of 10-12,000
words
Modern Hispanic Studies
MA
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Location: Canterbury
Attendance: Two years part-time
You acquire a good
understanding of modern
Spanish and Spanish-American
society. The programme consists
of two parts: a literary element,
which is taught in conjunction
with the MA in Hispanic and
Comparative Literature, and
a cultural element, which is
a distinctive part of this MA.
We teach all subject options in
Spanish, but accept written work
in both English and Spanish.
Course content
• Compulsory modules: History
and Memory; Spanish Cinema
• Dissertation of 10-12,000
words
Related taught programme
European Culture MA
(subject to approval)
See p133.
Research programme
For the most up-to-date information,
see www.kent.ac.uk/pg/72
Hispanic Studies PhD
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Location: Canterbury
Research students need to
demonstrate competence in
Spanish (and Catalan if relevant).
Research areas
Hispanic Studies can be broadly
characterised as concerned with
modern Hispanic studies, with
three peninsular specialists
STAFF PROFILE
Núria Triana-Toribio
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Núria Triana-Toribio’s research
focuses on aspects of Spanish
cinema and Spanish film
cultures. She has published
widely on areas such as national
cinemas, popular genres and
auteurism and, more recently,
the study of film festivals, film
legislation and film criticism.
Her latest monograph is entitled
Spanish Film Cultures.
She is a co-editor of the series,
Spanish and Latin American
Filmmakers, for Manchester
University Press.
Her most recent work has
appeared in Screen, Studies
in Hispanic Cinemas and the
Journal of Spanish Cultural
Studies.