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Portuguese Doctor of Philosophy

About us

Studies

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to have a M.A. and 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