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Welcome to the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages! We are located in the heart of Manhattan, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, just a few steps from the Empire State Building.

Our program is part of The Graduate Center, a unique institution devoted primarily to doctoral studies and committed to excellence, diversity and innovative research. The Graduate Center offers a vibrant program of public events that, as its mission statement indicates, "draws upon and contributes to the complex communities of New York City and beyond." We in HLBLL are major contributors to our institutional mission, first and foremost, through our commitment to preparing students to become rigorous and creative scholars in a diverse spectrum of fields of inquiry and also through an active program of academic, cultural, and literary activities.

Our outstanding faculty specializes in literary, language and cultural studies from Iberian, Latin American and transatlantic perspectives; and our seminars cover intellectual, literary, and linguistic history; literary theory, bibliographical studies and theories of textual criticism; philology, poetics and rhetoric; women's writing, gay and lesbian studies, and feminist theory; film and visual culture; sociolinguistics and the politics of language.

HLBLL has developed a network of international connections and signed agreements with foreign institutions that co-sponsor events such as seminars, lectures and symposia and that facilitate faculty and student exchanges. These include the Argentinean Culture Chair (in collaboration with the Argentinean Consulate in New York), the Bernardo Atxaga Chair in Basque Literature and Linguistics (with the Etxepare Institute) the Portuguese Culture Chair (with the Instituto Camões), the Center for Galician Studies (with Galicia's Secretaría Xeral de Política Lingüística), the Mercè Rodoreda Chair (with the Institut Ramon Llull), and the Miguel Delibes Chair (with the Fundación Siglo and the Universidad de Valladolid). In recent years we have had the honor to host scholars such as Alberto Romero, Silvia Saitta, Diana Sorensen, Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux, Enric Bou, Anxo Lorenzo, Mauro Fernández, Henrique Monteagudo, Dolores Vilavedra, Ana Maria Martinho, José María Pozuelo Yvancos, Aurora Egido, José Carlos Mainer, Ricardo Senabre, and Claudio Guillén; and prominent writers such as Ray Loriga, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Paloma Díaz Mas, Carmen Boullosa, Juan Villoro, Mempo Giardinelli, Bernardo Atxaga, Teresa Moure, and Manuel Rivas. We have also signed an agreement with the Hispanic Society of America and the Fundación Duques de Soria to offer special seminars in text editing and plan future publication projects.

 You can obtain further information by browsing through these pages and by contacting our Assistant Program Officer, Ms. Anna Santiago (asantiago@gc.cuny.edu), our Executive Officer, Dr. José del Valle (jdelvalle@gc.cuny.edu), or our Deputy Executive Officer, Dr. Magdalena Perkowska (mperkows@gc.cuny.edu).