University of California Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures
The Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures in Language and Culture Studies is offered by University of California Berkeley.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) offers the PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (HLL) with three possible tracks:
- Hispanic and Latin American Literatures and Cultures
- Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures
- Hispanic Linguistics
All graduate students earning their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UCB are required to develop a broad expertise across a number of programmatic fields (literary genres, historical periods, cultural and social geographies) that ensure their ability to interact with colleagues and their competitiveness in the academic job market.
The research specializations of UCB faculty and graduate students span all of these areas, and furthermore reflect most of the trends in contemporary scholarship, from philology, history of the book, and intersections of literature with material culture, through to aesthetics, the relationship of literature to visual culture, and performance studies.
All students are required to study both Spanish and Portuguese as well as another language relevant to the student's research program, to study literature and culture from both sides of the Atlantic, and to consider the role of linguistics in literary study. As students progress through UCB's graduate program, they are expected to formulate their own theoretical approaches to research questions regarding an individually defined area of expertise.