Iberian and Hispanic-American literature

The Iberian and Hispanic-American literature group is involved in the research and teaching of culture and literature in the Spanish language from the middle ages to modern times. Authors from the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish-speaking areas in Europe, the Americas and other continents are also studied. The group’s main research areas are: contemporary Spanish theatre, Sephardic literature and culture, Iberian cultural studies, theater of the Golden Age, Spanish chivalric romance, treatments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, medieval poetry and the Spanish Renaissance, translations and vulgarisations in Hispanic varieties, literary journalism in the Romantic era, Catalan literature and culture, contemporary Hispanic-American poetry, colonial and postcolonial literature, civil war literature and exile literature. Studies of original texts are carried out using philological, linguistic, cultural and historical, critical literary and digital humanities research methodologies, with particular regard to critical understanding, seeking a deeper comprehension of linguistic and rhetorical aspects, the translation process, thematic, figurative, formal and historiographic dimensions of anthropological and socio-political references, and multilingual and transcultural dimensions, often from an interdisciplinary perspective.