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The Hispanic Research Centre (HRC) brings together scholars working with and across a wide variety of Hispanic texts, including film and television, dictionaries, translation, oral history and autobiography. The research we carry out is strongly interdisciplinary and international, covering much of Spain and its historical nationalities (eg the Basque Country and Catalonia), as well as parts of Latin America (especially Cuba) and Africa (especially the Western Sahara). 

Our specialist areas include:

Spanish cinema DVD covers

• nationalism
• transnationalism
• postcolonialism
• ethnicity and migration
• gender and sexuality
• cultural memory
• film studies
• audiovisual translation (dubbing and subtitling)
• accessibility to the media.

Role of the HRC

The Centre supports research undertaken by staff and students, and promotes research links and collaborative initiatives. Our members are currently involved in a number of international research networks, and are open to further contacts with other researchers and institutions in the UK and abroad, particularly in the Spanish-speaking world. Our activities include a regular seminar series (with papers in both Spanish and English), conferences, study days and colloquia. These events have attracted the participation of scholars from all over the world.

Videos

Spanish grant holders

Just Messaging (YouTube)

Western Sahara refugees reach out to world (YouTube)

Visiting Scholars and Filmmakers at the HRC, 2008–09 (below)