Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (Latin American Studies)

University of Galway

The Structured PhD in Latin American Studies at the University of Galway offers students a unique opportunity to study within a Latin American focused academic environment, with expertise in Southern Cone, Central American and Mexican literatures and cultures. There are currently five academic members of staff actively researching in the area of Latin American Studies within the discipline of Spanish.This PhD is highly interdisciplinary in nature and is a very attractive option for students interested in continuing in academia, as well as those who intend in diversifying and working in Development or NGOs throughout the Americas. Current PhD students are working in the areas of literary studies, gender studies, cinema, detective fiction and cultural studies in Mexican, Chilean, Argentine and Cuban contexts. As part of this programme students usually have the opportunity to engage in research in different Latin American countries. One of the most exciting elements of the Structured PhD is the range of cross-disciplinary modules offered to the student, which serve to consolidate the student’s learning and guide them towards very interesting and innovative interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to their research topic.As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area, e.g., Latin American Literature I and IIare dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to completion of the research project e.g. additional language skillsacknowledge a student’s professional development, e.g., presentation of a paper at an international conferenceenhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g., careers workshops, computer literacy.Each student is assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies