Doctor of Philosophy - Spanish
The School of International Letters and Cultures offers the Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish in two concentrations:
The Ph.D. in Spanish consists of 54 credir hours of graduate-level work beyond the 30 M.A. credits. This means students must take up to 42 credits in courses and complete 12 dissertation credits (SPA 799). These hours of graduate course work are considered the minimum for a doctoral program and must be taken at ASU. All courses must be under the SPA prefix. Depending on the student’s educational experience, the Spanish doctoral committee through the student supervisory committee may request that s/he take more credits to correct certain areas.
The intent of the Ph.D. program in Spanish is to be as flexible as possible. Recognizing the many demands put upon the scholar in the modern world and the wide variety of specialized interests, every attempt will be made to plan a program of study that will best prepare the candidate for a productive career in the discipline of Hispanic studies. Thus, rather than specifying a general and rigid program of courses, broad areas of competence to be measured by the written and oral comprehensive examination administered at the end of formal course work and prior to the execution of the Ph.D. Dissertation have been established. It will be the student's responsibility to prepare these areas through formal course work, in consultation with his/her supervisory committee and with the Spanish graduate faculty in general.
Admission Requirements
All candidates for the Ph.D. in Spanish must fulfill the general requirements of the Graduate College concerning admission and residence. Candidates for the doctorate in Spanish will be required to demonstrate a near-native oral proficiency in Spanish and to show that they have developed a high order of expository prose in English and Spanish by presenting a term paper or a chapter of the M.A. thesis. The Spanish Graduate Program requires a 3.75 overall grade point average (4.00 = A). Admission to the Spanish doctoral program requires the candidate to present an M.A. in Spanish or equivalent from an accredited institution. The committee may request letters of recommendation regarding the applicant's command of Spanish and potential for doctoral work. A personal interview may also be appropriate. It is recommended, but not required, that students applying for admission to the M.A. or Ph.D. program submit scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). This is especially advisable for the applicants for Spanish Graduate Fellowship Award. Those interested in teaching assistantships/associateships should read about the additional requirements.
Language Reading Knowledge Requirement
Each prospective doctoral candidate is expected to demonstrate a reading knowledge of two languages other than Spanish and English.
GRADUATE SPANISH FACULTY AND RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS
ACEREDA, Alberto. Professor (Ph.D. University of Georgia): Latin American and Spanish Peninsular Literature. Modernismo. 19th- and 20th-century. Poetry. Transatlantic Studies.
FOSTER, David William. Regents' Professor (Ph.D. University of Washington): Latin American narrative and theater, Argentine literature, Mexican literature, Brazilian literature, Latin American film, Hispanic bibliography, literary/cultural theory, gender/queer theory.
GARCÍA-FERNÁNDEZ, Carlos Javier. Professor (Ph.D. University of California at Davis): 19th and 20th-century Spanish narrative, Spanish film studies.
GARCÍA-FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen. Associate Professor (Ph.D. Georgetown): Spanish pragmatics, conversational analysis, cross cultural communication and foreign language teaching methodology.
HERNÁNDEZ-GUTIÉRREZ, Manuel de Jesús. Associate Professor (Ph.D. Stanford University): Mexican American literature (novel, short story, theater, essay), Chicana writing and feminist theory, Chicano/a literary criticism, U.S. Latina/o literature (Neorican, Cuban American, Nica-American), Pan-Latino theory, postcolonial theory.
LAFFORD, Barbara. Professor (Ph.D. Cornell University): Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition (lexical acquisition, effects of the context of learning), applied linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, sociolinguistics, Hispano-American dialectology.
ROSALES, Jesús. Associate Professor (Ph.D. Stanford University): Mexican American literature. Chicano and Latino literatures and cultures.
SÁNCHEZ, Angel. Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Minnesota): Golden Age literature.
TOMPKINS, Cynthia Margarita. Associate Professor (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University): Latin American narrative and theater; women writers; film and cultural production; literary theory, criticism and aesthetics; feminist theory; postmodernism; comparative literature and translation studies.
URIOSTE, Carmen. Associate Professor (Ph.D. Arizona State University): Spanish literature: 20th Century Spanish fiction, popular studies, cultural studies, literary theory.
VOLEK, Emil. Professor (Ph.D. Charles University, Prague): 20th-century Latin American narrative, theater and poetry, Caribbean, Central American, and Mexican literature, literary theory and cultural studies, avant-garde and postmodern literature and culture, magic realism, Latin Americanism and other macondismos.