WHY CHOOSE
the Villanova
Hispanic Studies
Graduate Program?
New Features:
New graduate certificates in EDUCATION, or COMMUNICATION
combined with an M.A. in Hispanic Studies
• Enables you to obtain the jobs of the future working with the increasing Hispanic
population in the US
• Huge job opportunities in Hispanic Media
• Future opening in Spanish Education
 Small classes/individual attention
 Opportunities to gain research
and teaching experience
 Teacher training
 Diverse student body and faculty
 Opportunity to attend academic
lectures and conferences, cultural
events, film series, workshops.
 Earn an advanced degree in a
field of study with a future
 Hispanics to be 1/3rd of US
population by 2060
 Multiple career paths
 Gain a strong competitive edge
with cultural literacy
• Convenient location: train service
to-and-from Philadelphia with
stops on campus
• Full-time / part-time options
• Courses start after 5pm
 Competitive tuition  Teaching Assistantships
 Discount for teachers  Tuition Scholarships
Visit www.gradartsci.villanova.edu
for more information about
tuition, financial aid and benefits.
available on a competitive basis
Click on the “Financing Your Education” tab.
 continue to a Ph.D. program
 career in education at all levels
 work in Hispanic media
 with Hispanic outreach organizations,
business, NGOs, diplomacy, tourism
(profiles on our website)
Felipe Muñoz (2014) PhD
Urban Studies at Temple
University
Rachel Finkelstein (2014)
In Mexico with a Fulbright
fellowship
Nasser Meerkhan (2012)
PhD Hispanic Studies,
University of Virginia
Christian Formoso (2010)
PhD awarded (2015) SUNY
Stony Brook.
Award winning poet
Ariadna Fink (2011)
Spanish teacher,
Agnes Irwin school
Lori Compton (2012)
Systems analyst,
Bank of America
OUR FACULTY
Dr. Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández Contemporary Latin American literature, crime fiction, affect theory,
performance studies, student and human rights movements in Mexico.
Dr. Adriano Duque Medieval literature, memory studies, interfaith relations, gender and space, folklore,
travelogues.
Dr. Mercedes Juliá Spanish Romanticism, Modernism, postmodern Spanish novel.
Dr. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi Literary theories, cultural and post/colonial studies, contemporary Latin American
narrative and thought.
Dr. Carmen Peraita Early Modern Spain, Early Modern trans-Atlantic studies, print culture.
Dr. Salvatore Poeta Poetics, culture and politics of Early Modern to present day Spain, staging of sociocultural consciousness and protest in Spain from Neoclassical to present day, oral (folkloric) and literary
short narrative, literary theories and genre studies.
Dr. Carlos Trujillo 20-21st Century Latin American Poetry, Chilean poetry, 20-21st Century Latin American
narrative.
For more information:
Dr. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/romancelanglit/
academics/graduateprograminhispanicstudies.html
Silvia.nagyzekmi@villanova.edu
610.519.4680