Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature
For more information please contact the Director of Graduate Studies (Graduate Program Director)
daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu
Mary Moran-Luba, Senior Staff Assistant
mary.moran-luba@stonybrook.edu
Humanities Building 1059, Phone: (631) 632-6935
See The Graduate School Catalog for detailed and yearly updated information on our PhD program.
DEADLINE December 15th.
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Application Requirements All our applicants must provide their university transcripts, three letters of reference, a writing sample, a statement of purpose and some other documents. Detailed information on the application requirements can be seen in The Graduate School Bulletin. Our department does not require the GRE. All students who are not native or primary speakers of English must demonstrate proficiency in English to be admitted to the Graduate School. See English Language Requirements. |
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Faculty in the PhD Program Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics. Paul Firbas, Colonial Latin American literature and historiography, the colonial city, textual scholarship, history of the book and media, modernity in the Andes Daniela Flesler, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration Fernando Loffredo, Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, Sculpture and Urban Space, Art and Poetry in the Early Modern World Sebastián López Vergara, Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies Valeria Meiller, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Studies, Plurilingual & Comparative Literatures Joseph Pierce, Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies Victoriano Roncero López, Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism Lilia Ruiz Debbe, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology Javier Uriarte, 19th and 20th centuries Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures, travel writing, war and modernization, spatial imagination in Latin America, the Amazon. |
Traditionally we have recruited students from many nationalities and ethnic backgrounds,
and our goal is to train this diverse body of graduates to become accomplished scholars
and professors able to function effectively and successfully at any level of higher
education.
Before registering for each semester, students should consult with a member of the graduate committee of their program to schedule an approved combination of courses. All new M.A. or Ph.D. students are required to meet with the graduate program director during the first week of classes in order to fill out information sheets. Normally, for the M.A., three or four semesters of full-time study are required. For the Ph.D., the number of semesters necessary before advancement to candidacy varies (see below). A minimum of two consecutive semesters of full-time graduate study in residence is required for the Ph.D. It is recommended that the number of Independent Studies not exceed two. However, this is determined on an individual level.
Undergraduate courses may also be considered as part of a full-time course load, but do not count toward a graduate degree. Since undergraduate courses are not covered by a tuition waiver, students must pay for such courses. Graduate reading proficiency courses (FRN 500, ITL 500, POR 500) fulfill the language requirement and count toward a full-time course load but not toward a graduate degree. According to University requirements, a minimum of a B average must be maintained in all graduate coursework. After taking the practicum (SPN 691), students may choose to enroll in SPN 693 as part of a required 12-credit load until they reach the point where their full-time credit load is nine credits. Equivalent courses taken at other universities may be certified as fulfilling specific required courses in this department, but only six graduate course credits of any kind may be transferred.
Doctor of Philosophy
The Ph.D. degree is the highest teaching and research degree offered by the University. The Ph.D. prepares the recipient for an academic career at the level of the four-year college and/or research university, or for other careers in humanistic study, research, and writing. The entering graduate student who is considering working toward a Ph.D. should immediately consult with the graduate director to plan a broad program of reading and coursework in all areas offered by the department. The total number of required credits for the Ph.D. degree is usually 48 (16 courses). These 16 courses include the 12 general requirements specified below and four courses of the student’s choosing. Each student is also required to take at least one graduate-level course outside of the department (this course may, upon consultation with the graduate program director, be used to satisfy one of the general requirements). While this sets a general standard for Ph.D. coursework, each student’s actual plan of study will continue to be developed on an individual basis. The exact number and type of required courses will be determined based on the student’s transcript and performance during his or her first semester(s) at Stony Brook. For example, exemptions from particular subareas may be granted depending on the student’s prior study, while in cases of less than-adequate preparation in any period of Peninsular or Latin American literature (which will vary in the cases of students coming from Spanish, Latin American, or North American universities) the student will be required to take additional coursework.