New Storytellers on Border Crossing to the U.S. (1995-2016). The Representation of Migration from Latin America in Today's Documentary Filmmaking (3H170532)

KU Leuven , 1 or 2 semesters
The research group analyzes how theories of cultural (self-)translation apply to documentaries on Latin American migration to the United States.
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New Storytellers on Border Crossing to the U.S. (1995-2016)
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The research group intends to verify how recent documentaries represent migration and how they convey transcultural memory using specific aesthetic and narratological devices. Today's documentaries not only portray a spatial and identitarian in-betweenness which transcends national, political, social, linguistic and cultural borders, but also further explore the frontiers between fact and fiction.

Prerequisites

  • High level undergraduate student.
  • Minimum GPA 3.4

Important note: 

Students must remain registered as an undergraduate student at their U.S. or Canadian home institution while participating in the program. The student's home institution must complete the Learning Agreement after acceptance into a project, even if credits will not be transferred to that institution. Transfer of credits is decided by the students' home institution.

Submitting an application, does not guarantee that the student will be offered a placement. The research projects are also available to our domestic degree students; therefore, projects may already be full at the time of applying. Final decision on your admission is solely taken by the Research Supervisor at the host institution.

Faculty Department

Faculty of Arts / Department of Language Studies

Research on Translation/Interpreting, Communication, Journalism; Education: Bachelor in Applied Languages, Master in Translation/Interpreting/Business Communication/Journalism Studies.