PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures, and Culture

Curriculum 1: DESE - Les Littératures de l'Europe Unie/ European Literatures/ Letterature dell'Europa Unita
The literary research is developed in a supranational dimension in order to train specialists fluent in at least 3 languages who can manage different research typologies, methodologies and cultural contexts in a strong international dimension thanks to agreements and conventions with foreign institutions.

Each PhD cycle groups PhD candidates of the different signatory institutions to the agreement (www2.lingue.unibo.it/dese) by specific topics.

For the three-year period 2018-2021, the following topic shall be developed mandatorily: “Naturalism in the European literature”.

The research and training plan is provided for in the agreement. Within the framework of the proposed topics, annual works shall be about:

-       1^st year course: history of the literature; history of the ideas; literature and informatics; art and literature;

-       2^nd year course: textual analysis and translation techniques and methods

-       3^nd year course: doctoral seminar and thesis

Curriculum 2: EDGES - Women's and Gender Studies
-       Literature as a place for the production, circulation and consolidation of the culture of gender equality.

-       textual analysis, literary history, cultural studies, history of ideas, cultural  memory and counter-memories

-       women's artistic production and the female literary criticism and gender.

-       the issue of equal opportunities in access to education and knowledge, to the labor market and in career paths;

-       Discrimination based on religious prejudice and gender, civil rights in synchronic and diachronic perspectives and in different geo-political contexts.

-       Conflict management and promotion of corporate wellness and diversity management

-       Strategies and methodologies of gender and gender policies (gender mainstreaming) internship 250 hours

Curriculum 3: Literary and Cultural Studies
The research themes cover different cultural areas, addressing in turn
the relationship between literature and other fields of knowledge and different
forms of artistic expression (visual arts, performance, film, new media).
Specific research topics of this curriculum are: genres and themes of the
ancient and medieval literature (from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages),
including their intersections, and comparative research on modern and
contemporary reception; themes and genres; modern and contemporary Italian
literature, literature and aesthetic reflection of the German area; the theory
of the novel. Work will also focus on themes and genres of various areas of
study (Italian, French, English, Spanish, German and Anglo-American
literatures), with particular regard to the tension between the local context
and the European and global dimension, as well as the power dynamics which is
underlying. Much attention will be given to the translation as an act of
cultural mediation. A solid historical knowledge will be associated with a
capacity of methodological reflection. Taking into account the different
cultural contexts in a global dimension (reference is made to the Goethe's
concept of Weltliteratur, increasingly expanding today). Both theoretical and
cross-sectoral approach is offered, both specific insights in disciplines
ranging from classical literature to Italian Studies, foreign literature,
history of entertainment, film and other artistic practices.

Curriculum 4: World Literature and Postcolonial Studies
The curriculum will offer theoretical approaches as well as
cross-disciplinary and methodological insights in the specific areas of Postcolonial
Studies, transmedia studies, border studies, studies on the assets, analysis of
New Forms of textuality always more widespread in Contemporary Society, with
special attention to the functioning of the publishing market , the translation
policy, Migratory Phenomena and, more generally, the loosening of the link
between language, culture and territory on which for at least two centuries the
National Study of literature and the literary field Partition was based.