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Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish and Portuguese

Hispanic and Lusophone literatures, cultures, and colonialities in dialogue.

🏛 Introduction

UC’s PhD in Spanish & Portuguese trains scholars to interrogate Iberian, Latin American, and Afro-Luso texts, performances, and linguistic communities through decolonial and digital frames.

💡 Suggested Project Titles

Digital critical edition of Sor Juana’s secular correspondence with TEI markup

NLP study of code-switching dynamics in bilingual Caribbean podcasts

GIS visualization of Afro-Brazilian quilombo land struggles over time

Comparative essay on extractivism ecopoetics in Peruvian and Angolan novels

VR recreation of Al-Andalus convivencia street markets for heritage education

Policy brief on language justice in U.S. immigration courts for Spanish speakers

Corpus analysis of gender-inclusive language reforms in Iberian newspapers

Oral-history archive documenting Galician migrant culinary traditions in NYC

Machine-learning stylometry uncovering authorship of anonymous colonial chronicles

Podcast debating narco-aesthetics in Mexican corridos and Netflix series

White paper on open-access translation pipelines for Indigenous Quechua poetry

Digital map of Portuguese maritime soundscapes from fado to morna

Crowdsourced subtitling initiative for Latin American Indigenous cinema

Workshop teaching Afro-Latin drumming as decolonial pedagogy

Critical analysis of neoliberal discourse in contemporary Chilean theater

Symposium on Lusophone post-colonial urban imaginaries in Maputo and Lisbon

Interactive timeline of Spanish Civil War exile literary networks in Mexico

Citizen-science project mapping toxic mining legacies in Andean communities

Study of Portuñol border speech and regional identity performances

Conference on AI-driven preservation of endangered Amazonian languages

University of California – PhD in Spanish & Portuguese

Interrogate Iberian and Latinx worlds with UC’s bilingual PhD.

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