Organizations

• Professional Organizations. All doctoral students are encouraged to join professional organizations such as:
  
  

  1. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

  2. Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL)

  3. Modern Language Association (MLA)

• Institutes and Associations
  
  

  1. Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH)

  2. Insituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI)

  3. Asociación Internacional de Teatro Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de Oro (AITENSO)

  4. The Cervantes Society of America

  5. Instituto Cervantes

Libraries and Databases

In addition to the vast holdings in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literatures maintained in the libraries of the CUNY colleges and The Graduate Center, students have access to the collections of various public and private institutions dedicated to Iberian and Latin American studies. The New York Public Library, located nearby, has one of the finest Hispanic collections in the world. Students also have access to the extraordinary collections of the Hispanic Society of America.

1. Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid (Spain)

2. Biblioteca Nacional (Portugal)

3. Fundação Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil)

4. Hispanic Society of America (New York)

5. Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room

6. Mina Rees Library

7. New York Public Library Catalogs

8. Philobiblon

On-line Journals

1. Cervantes - Official journal of the Cervantes Society of America

2. CiberLetras - Journal of literary criticism and culture

3. Dieciocho - Eighteenth-century studies in Spain and Latin America

4. Espéculo - Electronic journal of literary studies

5. Hispanista - Primera revista electrónica de los hispanistas de Brazil.

6. Laberinto - Spanish and Spanish-American texts from the early modern period, 1450-1750

7. Lemir - Journal dedicated to Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Literature

8. LLJournal - Journal of the Students of The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, The CUNY Graduate Center

9. Tiempos Modernos - Sixteenth-, Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century art, literature and culture

Dictionaries

1. Diccionario de la Real Academia Española

2. Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa On-line

Web Tools

• Translation Software Online. Although still in the early stages, translation software on the web can be helpful in getting the "gist" of text in a foreign language. However, caution should be used with these tools. Our tests produced some rather amusing results, such as "calzoncillos de noticias" for "newsbriefs!"
  
  

  1. Babel Fish

  2. FreeTranslation

  3. Prompt's Online Translator

• Search Engines
  
  

  1. Buscopio

  2. Inlibris - El Directorio Literario

  3. Motores de búsqueda en español

  4. Search Engines and Directories in Spain

  5. Search Engines, Directories and Lists of Portugal

  6. Search Engines, Directories and Lists of Spain

• Other
  
  

  1. Adobe Acrobat Reader - Free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. An essential tool for universal document exchange.

  2. LView Pro - A comprehensive graphics package that enables you to create images from scratch or edit existing image files. Shareware.

Early Spanish Music

1. Alfonso X "el Sabio" - Cantigas a Santa María
2. Folías, zarabandas, gallardas y canarios. Apuntes sobre la danza y el baile en la España del Siglo de Oro
3. Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
4. Martín Códax - Cantigas de amigo
5. Midi / MP3 Libraries:
• Cantigas de Santa María
• The Classical Music Archives
• Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
• Música de Hispania
• Spanish Early Music Midi Files
6. La Música Antigua Española
7. Polifonistas del Siglo de Oro castellano
8. Preludio (vida y obra de grandes compositores)
9. Sephardic Song
10. Tomás Luis de Victoria

Additional Links and Research Tools

1. Biblioteca Virtual "Miguel de Cervantes" - Vast collection of electronic texts from many literary periods.

2. Centro de Estudios Cervantinos. Obras de Miguel de Cervantes - Complete Works in electronic texts

3. Comedia - Golden Age comedias in electronic text

4. Como escribir y presentar su tesis o disertación - Guide to the many aspects of crafting, implementing and defending a thesis or dissertation.

5. Iberolenguas - Foro lingüístico iberoamericano

6. Internet para hispanistas - Recopilación de recursos en internet para el hispanista
   
   

7. La vida y la obra de Jorge Luis Borges - Extensive Argentine site on writer Jorge Luis Borges maintained by Martin Hadis.

8. Letras Hispanas - Excellent Source for additional Spanish resource links

9. Library of Iberian Resources Online - Collection focusing upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.

10. Literature in Latin America - LANIC - Link collection of resources for Latin American Literature

11. Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture - Extensive collection of links to resources in many areas of Luso-Brazilian studies

12. Medieval Iberia - Extensive resources for medieval Iberian studies
    
    

13. Proyecto Cervantes 2001 - Comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life.

14. Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico - Collaborative effort to disseminate Hispanic thought and essay. With electronic texts.

15. Proyecto Filosofía en Español - Philosophical texts in Spanish by such authors as Antonio de Guevara and Benito Jerónimo Feijoo.

16. Proyecto Vercial - Portuguese literature database
    
    

17. Recomendaciones para la preparación de propuestas de tesis - Helpful suggestions for preparing a thesis proposal

18. Las sátiras de Quevedo y su recepción - Antología crítica

19. Textos LEMIR - Spanish Medieval and Renaissance texts.

 Job Placement

1. Academic360.com - Meta collection of Internet resources gathered for academic job hunters.

2. Academic Position Network - Search the APN database for hundreds of positions from around the world.

3. Chronicle of Higher Education - Career Network

4. CUNY Job Openings - Job postings of available positions throughout the City University of New York.

5. HigherEdJobs.com - One of the largest job databases focused exclusively on College and University positions.

OnLine Bookstores

1. Amazon.com

2. Casa del Libro

3. FetchBook.Info

4. Latin American Book Service, Inc.

5. LEA Book Distributors

6. Lectorum

7. Librería Cervantes

8. Librairie de France

9. Spanishnewyork.com

10. Libreros Reunidos, S.L.

11. Virtual Bookshop

[Would you like to suggest a link for our list? Please submit it (or any reports of broken links) to the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Literatures.]