Dr Rosa Vidal Doval has been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to study the development of purity of blood.

Led by Professor Hilary Owen, this 5 year, Leverhulme funded project will produce the first ever ‘history from below’ account of women working in the Portuguese and Spanish film and television industries in the 1970s.

Professor Sam Wolfe secured a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize to undertake a 3 year project seeking to understand the the factors which can increase or slow the speed of grammatical change in the Romance languages.

The Spanish sub-faculty run two research seminars, one that focuses on Medieval and Golden Age topics and one that concentrates on Modern Peninsular and Spanish American topics.

The Centre for Early Modern Studies is host to the largest, most vibrant early modern scholarly community in the world.

The inflectional morphology of Romance languages often receives attention, but genuinely comparative, interpretative, pan-Romance, overviews remain rare.

The research was being conducted in the context of an unprecedented crisis in language learning in UK schools, which is in turn undermining the health of Modern Languages departments in universities.

This AHRC funded major research project aims to make the riches of the theatres of Spain and Spanish America accessible to English-speaking researchers and theatre professionals.

The aim of this research is to improve our understanding of genetic anomalies that may disrupt brain functions, crucial for speech and language. With such knowledge future intervention can be found to help those who are affected.

Current research

This new project explores the trajectories of different forms of infantile weakness in the Spanish Caribbean from the final two decades of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, namely malnutrition, malaria, neonatal infirmity, and poliomyelitis.