The Ph.D. aims to promote the training of high-level researchers in the specialized field of foreign literatures, languages, and cultures. The disciplinary areas include American studies, English studies, French studies, German studies, Iberian studies, Portuguese studies and Slavic studies. Each of these areas can offer itself as an autonomous research field within traditional pathways (textual criticism, philology, history of literature, and linguistics), or in an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective as starting points for the comparison among literatures, languages, and cultures of different countries. This can be achieved through the study of translations, literary and artistic influences, and all phenomena that allow the exchange and mutual enrichment between different cultures through the circulation of works and ideas: from theatre to magazines, from editorial policies to exhibition and museum projects.
Therefore, it will be possible to cultivate formative and research pathways both within individual disciplines (national languages and literatures) and in a transversal way, with possible openings to other languages (graphic design, painting) and to the world of culture in a broad sense, and to the sciences. Research can be conducted in the field of intertextuality and transmediality, also thanks to the tools of Digital Humanities and advanced critical methodologies, which can be useful in the study of topics potentially broadened to issues related to inclusivity, gender, technologies, social media, and other fundamental issues of the contemporary world (from eco-criticism to the role of artificial intelligence in the humanities).
Therefore, it will be possible to follow formative and research pathways both within individual disciplines (national languages and literatures) and transversally, with possible openings to other modes of expression (graphic design, painting), to the world of culture in a broad sense, and to the sciences. Research can be conducted in the field of intertextuality and transmediality, also thanks to the tools of Digital Humanities and advanced critical methodologies, which can be useful in the study of topics potentially broadened to issues related to inclusivity, gender, technologies, social media, and other fundamental issues of the contemporary world (from eco-criticism to the role of artificial intelligence in humanities disciplines).
Considering this wealth of study perspectives, a fundamental role is entrusted to the Doctoral College, which will constantly monitor, together with the two Tutors, and throughout the entire three-year educational program, the research of the doctoral students thanks also to a schedule of regular meetings.