The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature’s PhD program prepares students for an academic career or for other professions that require advanced analytical, writing and research skills.
We offer tuition scholarships that cover the total cost of PhD courses and Teaching Assistantships that provide PhD students with a stipend. Additionally, domestic applicants can be nominated for Graduate Council Fellowships and Turner Fellowships. All PhD students can apply for summer research awards and grants.
- Graduate Program Director: Daniela Flesler. Daniela.Flesler@stonybrook.edu / Humanities Building 1055.
- Senior Staff Assistant: Mary Moran-Luba. Mary.Moran-Luba@stonybrook.edu / Humanities Building 1055 / Phone: (631) 632-6935
See The Graduate School Catalog for detailed information on our PhD program.
Application Deadline:
- December 15th.
- Register Here for > Virtual Information Session: October 9, 2026 at 12 pm (NY Time)
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Application Requirements All our applicants must provide their university transcripts, three letters of reference, a writing sample, a statement of purpose and some other documents. Detailed information on the application requirements can be seen in The Graduate School Bulletin. Our department does not require the GRE. All students who are not native or primary speakers of English must demonstrate proficiency
in English to be admitted to the Graduate School.
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Faculty in the PhD Program Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics. Paul Firbas, Colonial Latin American literature and historiography, the colonial city, textual scholarship, history of the book and media, modernity in the Andes Daniela Flesler, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Migration Fernando Loffredo, Mediterranean and Colonial Latin American Visual Culture, Sculpture and Urban Space, Art and Poetry in the Early Modern World Sebastián López Vergara, Latinx and Indigenous Diaspora Studies Valeria Meiller, Environmental Humanities, Indigenous Studies, Plurilingual & Comparative Literatures Joseph Pierce, Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies Victoriano Roncero López, Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism Lilia Ruiz Debbe, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methodology Javier Uriarte, 19th and 20th centuries Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures and cultures, travel writing, war and modernization, spatial imagination in Latin America, the Amazon. |