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Research in Iberian and Latin American Studies at Queen Mary, University of London covers the language, literature, culture (including film and other visual media) of the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking world, and the literature and culture (including visual culture) of the Portuguese-speaking world.

The research team and their areas of expertise include:

• Elena Carrera
  Spanish Golden Age, history of ideas; critical theory; early modern autobiography; gender and power in early modern Spain; history of madness; the emotions in medieval and early modern Europe
• Trevor Dadson
  Golden Age Spanish and Portuguese poetry; Golden Age cultural history; contemporary poetry in Spanish
• Patricia D'Allemand
  Spanish-American (especially Andean) literature and cultural history
• Peter Evans
  Spanish and Hollywood film; Golden Age Spanish literature (especially drama)
• Omar García Obregón
  Cuban and Cuban-American literature and film,
  Contemporary Spanish poetry and drama,
  Poetry and Poetics of Exile, Censorship and Cultural Resistance
• Jordi Larios
  Twentieth-century Catalan and Spanish poetry and narrative
• Parvati Nair
  Twentieth-century Peninsular literature and culture (especially visual culture); migration studies
• Christopher Pountain
  Spanish and the Romance languages, their structure and history, especially historical syntax
• Rosa Vidal Doval
  Spanish Medieval Literature and Culture
• Else Vieira
  Brazilian literature and culture, including film

Other active researchers (Emeritus Research Professors or Honorary Research Fellows) include:

• Nigel Glendinning
  Art history (especially Goya), eighteenth-century Spanish literature and culture
• Ralph Penny
  Linguistic history of Spain and Spanish America; dialectology; sociolinguistic history
• Jane Whetnall
  Medieval (especially fifteenth-century) Spanish literature

Current and recent graduate research in Hispanic Studies includes theses on:

Phonological variation in Barcelona Catalan: the Xava accent; Bilingualism in Alghero/Alguer; Code-switching in a Spanish-English bilingual family; The development of indefinite expressions in medieval Spanish; Editing the Cancionero de Herberay ; Lower and middle-class women in Spanish society, 1700-1788; Location, location, location: language, gender and generation in recent Cuban American fiction; Dialogic aspects in the Cuban novel after the 1959 revolution; Exile Cuban literature; An exploration of the representation of Italianness in British cinema; Cuban and Soviet film: a comparative study; Sexual discourse in the films of the transition to democracy in Spain; The relationship between the film adaptation of Spanish   dramatic texts and female visibility; Contemporary Basque cinema and the problem of national identity; The Construction of Feminine Poetics in Two Catalan Women Poets: Maria-Mercè Marçal and Maria Fullan; The cultural role of translation in Brazil.

The Department of Hispanic Studies collectively edits Hispanic Research Journal, published by Maney Ltd. We are also the editors and publishers of the series Papers of the Medieval Research Seminar (PMHRS), which now includes more than 40 volumes

The Department holds a general Research Seminar five or six times per session, as well as the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, which meets seven or eight times per year, the Medieval and Early Modern Lunch and the annual conferences organised by The Centre for Catalan Studies.