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Studies
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to have a direct admit Ph.D. program in the interdisciplinary study of the Portuguese-speaking world (Brazil, Portugal, Lusophone Africa and Lusophone Asia), with particular emphasis on the literatures and cultures of these regions.
The program emphasizes comparative connections not only among Portuguese-speaking regions, but also between Portuguese-speaking countries and other regions of the world, including Spanish America and Spain. Through a set of core, foundational courses as well as the flexibility to take courses outside of the department on the Portuguese-speaking world and in related areas of interest, the program offers both depth and breadth of training to students arriving with a B.A. or M.A. in Portuguese or in a related field, such as Latin American Studies, Spanish, Comparative Literature or Romance Languages and Literatures.
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Research Areas
Following are some of the fields of research in which our is actively engaged:
- Comparative Luso-Hispanic studies
- Medieval Iberian literatures and cultures
- History of the Portuguese empire (early modern and modern)
- Orientalism
- Colonial and postcolonial studies
- Subaltern studies
- Portuguese Black Atlantic
- Conversos/New Christians in the Iberian Atlantic
- Transatlantic studies
- Philosophy and literature
- History of the book
- Film studies
- Portuguese linguistics (Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics)
Faculty in the departments of History, Political Science, Anthropology, and African and African American Studies will also periodically offer courses in the program.
Other Activities
- Research opportunities in Brazil and Portugal, through our ties with the University of São Paulo in Brazil and the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento and the Instituto Camões in Portugal
- Humanities Institute Working Groups in Iberian Studies and The Americas before 1900
- Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Working Group
- Wexner Center for the Arts Via Brazil, featuring Brazilian visual arts programming through a three-year long Mellon Foundation Grant
- Instituto Camões Fund for lectures and other cultural activities promoting Portuguese at OSU, as well as scholarships for summer language study and research in Portugal