PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures, and Culture

Curriculum 1: DESE - European Literatures 
 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 typolologies, methodologies and cultural contexts in a strong international dimension thanks to agreements and conventions with foreign institutions. The theme for the 35th cycle of the PhD programme is "Literature and Music".

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

Curriculum 3: 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.