Peter Lang Publication Prize for Early Career Researchers - Deadline 31 August 2026
Research Excellence Plenary for Mid-Career Researchers - Deadline 15 September 2026
Visiting International Fellowship - Deadline 25 September 2026
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Each year, the AHGBI awards two prizes for the best doctoral dissertations in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies submitted and approved in any university of the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The winning dissertations are published by Támesis and Legenda, respectively, with each prize including a subvention to support publication costs. In addition to publication, prize winners are invited to present their research as part of the AHGBI Publication Prize Panel at the following year’s conference.
Dr Louise Evans (University of Liverpool): “Writing and Reading the Influencer: Female Self-fashioning in Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age and Instapoesia of Today”
Dr Catriona Parry (University of Oxford): “Cinema is what we do: Rhetorics of Renewal and Adaptation in Post-Independence Angolan Cinema (1982−1992)”
You will have the opportunity to learn more about their research project by attending the Publication Prize conference panel at the AHGIB Annual Conference in 2027.
We are pleased to announce this year’s prize for the best two doctoral dissertations, to be published by Támesis and Legenda, respectively. The prizes, funded by the AHGBI, will provide a subvention to cover publication costs. The prizes will be awarded to the two most distinguished doctoral theses in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies submitted and approved in any university of the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1st November 2024 and 31st October 2025.
The application form must be completed by the examiners and submitted by the supervisor.
Submissions to the AHGBI Publication Prize for doctoral theses 2024 – 25 are open until the 24th December 2025.
Applications should be sent to the AHGBI Awards & Fellowships Officer from the 17th December onwards.
Dr Louise Evans (University of Liverpool): 'Writing and Reading the Influencer: Female Self-fashioning in Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age and Instapoesia of Today'
Dr Catriona Parry (University of Oxford): 'Cinema is what we do: Rhetorics of Renewal and Adaptation in Post-Independence Angolan Cinema (1982-1992)'
Dr James Thomas (Queen Mary University of London): 'The Anglophone Reception of Catalan Literature: 1780-1900'
Alma Prelec (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): 'Travelling Players, Travelling Civil Wars: Theatrical Exchange between Spain and the former Yugoslavia'
Matthew Oxley (University of Sheffield): 'The Urbanization of Subjectivity: Ildefons Cerdà’s Urbanización and Catalan Narrative Fiction'
Rhys Davies (Univeristy College Cork): 'Constellations of Conflict: Violence, War, and Writing the Nation in Daniel Ferreira’s Pentalogía (infame) de Colombia'
Dr Thomas Olver (The University of Liverpool): ‘Moving Past Patria: Locating Memory in Contemporary Basque Literature’. [Legenda]
Dr Rachel Beaney (Cardiff University): ‘Orphans and the Turn(s) to Childhood in Spanish Cinema: Transitions and Transformations’. [Legenda]
Dr Jessica Hagley (Cambridge University): ‘The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic’. [Tamesis]
Dr Matthew Hilborn (Durham University): ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970-2020)’. [Legenda]
Dr Victoria Adams (University of Cambridge): ‘Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio’s Past and Present throught Digital Media’. [Legenda]
Dr Eduardo Paredes Ocampo (Oxford University): ‘Staging La Vida es Sueño: Its Première and Three Contemporary Productions’. [Tamesis]
Dr Rebecca Fell (University of Cambridge): ‘Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel’. [Tamesis]
Dr Elena Caetano Alvarez (University of Birmingham): ‘The Empire Past and Present: Discursive Treatment of the Translatio Imperii in Alfonso X’s Estoria de Espanna as a Legitimisation of the Fecho del Imperio‘. [Tamesis]
Dr Laura Linares (University College Cork): ‘Mediating Minority: The Translation of Galician Narrative in the 21st Century (2000-2018)’. [Legenda]
Dr Jade Boyd (University of Bristol): ‘The Experience of the Colour in the Theatre of Federico García Lorca’. [Legenda]
Dr Luis Medina (King’s College London): ‘Where are the Borders? (Re)Imagining the Nation in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature’. [Tamesis]
Dr Delphi May (University of Exeter): ‘Hybrid Acts: Representations of (Spanish-) Chineseness in Spanish Film and Television’. [Legenda]
Dr Oliver Baldwin (King’s College London): ‘Seneca’s Medea in Republican Spain: precedents, creation and impact of its 1933 production’. [Tamesis]
Dr Lucia Brandi (University of Liverpool): ‘Young speakers of Mexican indigenous languages: contesting language ideologies’. [Legenda]
Dr Karunika Kardak (University of St Andrews): ‘Opening up the Archive: Memory, Identity and Historical Fiction in Uruguay (1988-2011)’. [Legenda]
Dr Maya Feile Tomes (University of Cambridge): ‘Neo-Latin America: The Poetics of the “New World” in Early Modern Epic: Studies in José Manuel Peramás’s De Invento Novo Orbe Inductoque Illuc Christi Sacrificio [‘On the Discovery of the New World and the Introduction of the Christian Sacrament to it’] (Faenza, 1777)’. (Támesis)
Dr Brigid Catherine Lynch (University of St Andrews): ‘Dialogues of Historicity and Horizontalism in Post-Crisis Argentine Narratives’. (Legenda).
Dr Natasha Tanna (University of Cambridge): ‘Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company’. (Legenda)
Dr Imogen Choi (University of Cambridge): ‘Conflict Ethics and Political Thought in Early Peruvian Epic’ (Tamesis)
Dr Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard (Oxford University): ‘My Enemy or My Brother? Spanish Representations of Muslim and Jewish Culture during the Colonial Campaigns in Morocco, 1909-1927’. (Tamesis)
Dr Luis Castellví Laukamp (University of Cambridge): ‘Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis: Gongora, Camargo, Sor Juana (Legenda)
Dr Carla Almanza (University of Sheffield): ‘Utopian narrative in 18th-century Spain: Generic Frameworks and Social Reformism’ (Legenda).
Dr Nicola Astudillo Jones (University of Manchester): ‘Consuming Latin America: The ¡Viva! Film Festival and Imagined Cosmopolitan Communities’ (Tamesis).
Dr Rocío Rødtjer (King’s College London): ‘Whose Ancestral Line Is It Anyway? Women, Legitimacy and the Nineteenth-Century Genealogical Imagination’ (Legenda).
Dr Mirna Vohnsen (University College Dublin): ‘Rethinking Argentinidad: Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema’ (Tamesis).
Membership of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland is open to all research-active Hispanists resident in Great Britain or Ireland who have a current research interest in the languages or cultures of Iberia (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Basque) or in related aspects of Hispanic, Lusophone or Latin American subjects. Hispanists living overseas who are former members of the Association, or are British subjects or Irish citizens, and who continue to be research active, qualify for membership. To be considered for membership, all applicants must be nominated by two existing members of the AHGBI.