Vanderbilt University, based in Nashville, Tennessee offers a fully funded PhD in Spanish and Portuguese. The graduate program of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers coursework and research supervision in all areas of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature, with related courses in linguistics, film and cultural studies, and theory. A full, five-year funding package for every Ph.D. student. Graduate students admitted with assistantships are granted tuition remission, health insurance benefits, and an annual stipend. For 2019-20, the standard 12-month graduate student stipend was $25,000