Graduate Program

The Emory Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary program that equips students for cutting-edge research and impactful careers. Our curriculum spans the literatures and cultures of Iberia, Latin America, Africa, the U.S., and the Hispanic and Lusophone diasporas, providing students with the tools to explore these regions and communities through diverse academic lenses.  Students receive rigorous training in literary and cultural analysis, enhanced by interdisciplinary opportunities in areas such as gender and women’s studies, ethnic studies, film and media, anthropology, history, art history, and linguistics.

From their first year, students collaborate with a three-member faculty advising team to craft a personalized, interdisciplinary profile that emphasizes critical and global thinking. Emory’s robust academic and public-facing resources offer students countless opportunities to engage with innovative projects through the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Center for Civic and Community Engagement, the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies (LACLS) program, and the Latinx Studies Initiative. Through these platforms, students deepen their expertise in areas such as visual studies, cultural production, transpacific and transatlantic studies, LGTBQ and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and historical and sociolinguistics.

The program offers thematically defined areas of research on Narratives and Performance of Identity and Citizenship; Empire, Colonialism, and Post-coloniality; and Translating Language and Culture.

For more details, please visit the Thematic Research page.