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Spanish_>_M.A. Hispanic Studies_>_Graduate Students
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| James
Buchanan
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completed my Honours BA in Spanish Literature in 2011 at Concordia (degree
conferred with Great Distinction). It was my privilege to work with an
extraordinary faculty, through whose combined expertise I obtained not
only solid grounding in Peninsular literature of the Medieval and Early
Modern periods, my area of special interest, but also exposure to contemporary
Spanish literature, Latin American literature from its inception to the
present day, a variety of non-literary Hispanic cultural topics, and linguistics.
_ I am elated to be pursuing graduate studies in Hispanic Studies at Concordia and be part of a very new program, whose rigorous courses strike a balance between the theoretical and the pragmatic. In addition to my existing commitment to purely literary research, I have also been exposed to — and motivated to study further — such disciplines as pedagogy, literary translation, and Hispanic linguistics. I am grateful to the financial support provided by both the Concordia University Graduate Fellowship and the Canadian Power Corporation Scholarship. _ In addition to course work, I am looking forward to pursuing, on a more individual basis, my areas of special interest, which include hegemony and subalternality, the construction and representation of the marginalized subject, and concepts of nationhood and collective identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian literature. My inaugural presentation at a refereed conference (pending acceptance) will be in May, 2012, at the 48th annual conference of the Canadian Association of Hispanists. It will evolve from my undergraduate thesis, on the representation of the Jewish subject in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María, under the rubric "Mujeres, minorías, marginados y desplazados: actitud y perfil sociales en la literatura medieval peninsular." |
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