We have research strengths in Film Studies; 20^th-21^st Century Spanish American; 19^th-20^th Century Spanish American; Colonial Spanish American; U.S. Latina/o; Caribbean; Medieval; Early Modern/Golden Age, and Modern Peninsular including Catalonia.

We conceive of our research areas in clusters that reflect primary research currents in the profession: Geographies of Memory and Culture; Violence and Political Space; Philosophy; Political Thought and Psychoanalysis; Visual, Sound and Cinema Studies; Popular and Material Culture; Colonialism and Empire; Race and Ethnicity; Diaspora and Immigration; Gender and Sexuality; Culture and Modernity, and Cognition; Emotion and Sensation.