Spanish and Latin American Studies
Coursework
Contact
Department website: sydney.edu.au/arts/spanish_latin_american
Chair of the Department
Dr Fernanda Peñaloza
Email:
Phone +61 2 9351 6893
Research
Contact
Dr Vek Lewis
Email:
Phone +61 2 9351 4524
Supervision for research degrees is currently available in the following areas:
- 20th and 21st century peninsular Spanish narrative
- 20th and 21st century Catalan narrative
- Cultural and linguistic policy in Spain and its Autonomous Communities
- Catalan nationalism
- Same-sex desire and transgender in Latin America in literature and film
- Queer and transgender theory
- Post-revolutionary, modern and contemporary Mexico and Cuba
- Debates in Latin American cultural studies
- Revolution and resistance movements in Latin America
- 19th to 20th Century Latin American processes of cultural production, circulation and
consumption - Narrative constructions of models of modernity and identity
- Interrelations between fiction, colonial discourse, travel writing, aesthetics and anthropology