Deciding to Apply for a PhD
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Doctoral Decisions To open this blog post series, I have decided to start at the very beginning by addressing your decision to apply for a PhD. Managing your Masters workload…
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Doctoral Decisions To open this blog post series, I have decided to start at the very beginning by addressing your decision to apply for a PhD. Managing your Masters workload…
The newest series of Dr. Who has been consistently praised, not only because, for the first time, the doctor is a woman, but for chapters like “Rosa” (Chapter 3), in…
On the 8th March, International Women’s Day, I wish to pay homage to one of my favourite heroines of literature: Mary Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. I discovered Jane Austen…
January was an especially dark month for the arts and entertainment world. On the 29th, we lost French nouvelle vague filmmaker Jacques Rivette. His very personal style allowed actors to…
If you teach subjects such as Languages, Literature or History, you might feel inclined to prepare cultural activities once in a while. There are practical reasons for this… It’s good…
This field has three main areas where you should be proficient: Language, Literature and History. The explanation is quite simple. It’s impossible to teach a language at a university level…
When I was in high school, the Spanish education system required fifteen-year-old students to choose between three options: from then on, they would study Ciencias [Maths and Science subjects], Letras…
There is a huge problem regarding the literary contents of most Spanish programs. Spanish Literature has often been subject to lots of political and ideological pressures. Therefore, all the writers…
Was it simple coincidence, or had Martin Amis heard that I was in town and in need of some high-semantic stimulation? Either way it was with surprise that I discovered…
In some of these articles, my fellow hispanists from the A of Abu Dhabi to the Z of Zimbabwe, I will try to help you improving some of your contents.…