UVA’s PhD in Spanish offers specialized training in Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean literature, as well as Hispanic cultural studies, linguistics, and critical theory. Doctoral candidates develop expertise in transatlantic texts, indigenous voices, postcolonial critique, and sociolinguistic phenomena. Designed for aspiring academics and cultural scholars, this program combines research, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Decolonizing the Latin American novel: case studies from Peru, Colombia, and Guatemala
Transatlantic modernism: the influence of Spanish Civil War exiles on Latin American narrative
Phonological erosion in Caribbean Spanish dialects
Narrative trauma and memory in post-dictatorship Chilean literature
The poetics of resistance in Indigenous Mayan and Mapuche poetry
Linguistic purism and identity politics in 21st-century Spain
Rewriting the conquest: colonial archives and speculative fiction
Posthumanism in contemporary Mexican cyberpunk novels
A feminist reading of Golden Age *entremeses*
Digital storytelling and transmedia narratives in Latinx TikTok communities
Language shift and revitalization in endangered Iberian dialects
Comparative grammar structures across Spanish-English bilingual education programs
The role of magical realism in confronting neoliberalism
Intergenerational trauma in Spanish Caribbean diasporic fiction
The rise of ecofeminism in Latin American environmental literature
Queer identity construction in borderland narratives
Multimodal storytelling in Latin American graphic novels
Postcolonial spatial theory applied to urban Spanish cinema
Archival reconstruction of banned Cuban poetry anthologies
Epistolary tradition in Spanish women’s writing from the 18th century
Advance transatlantic literary and linguistic scholarship with UVA’s globally engaged PhD in Spanish.
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