Overview

The Department and the Graduate School enthusiastically support the presentation of graduate research papers in national and international conferences, and they also offer competitive scholarships for dissertation writing.

Research and activities

In the Spanish American area students have written outstanding dissertations on authors such as Borges, García Márquez, Palés Matos, and Valenzuela, and on topics as diverse as science fiction, postmodern detective fiction, paranoia and narrative, the ethics of authorship, and the presence of Scandinavian themes in Latin American poetry.

In the Spanish division graduate students have forged new avenues of investigation in authors like Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Laforet, and Marías, and have proposed new critical approaches to the study of autobiography in women writers, Catalan nationalism, the role of memory in writing, and the intertextuality of fiction.

As for study abroad, graduate students at Pennsylvania State University have several opportunities to collaborate with the department’s summer programs in Puebla, Mexico and in Ronda, Spain.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Theory and Techniques of Teaching Spanish
Hispano-Romance Linguistics
Spanish Descriptive Linguistics: Phonology
Hispanic Dialectology
Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature
Golden Age Theatre
The Cinematic Pluriverse of Pedro Almodóvar
Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Early Spanish American Literature
Latina/o Studies
Translation in the Americas

Key information

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-24 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

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Credits

51 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

University Park, United States

Disciplines

Iberian studies View 24 other PhDs in Iberian studies in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

The minimum requirement for admission normally will be the equivalent of an undergraduate Spanish major.
Applicants must submit a statement of purpose and a single-authored sample of representative research. One of these must be in Spanish and one in English.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

99450 USD / full

≈ 99450 USD / full
Out-of-State

99450 USD / full

≈ 99450 USD / full
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

55182 USD / full

≈ 55182 USD / full

Living costs

University Park

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

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Scholarships Information

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Available Scholarships

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