PhD in Literary and Philological Cultures

Academic Year 2021/2022 PON Scholarships Call
Subject area Humanistic Studies
Cycle 37
Coordinator Prof. Nicola Grandi
Language Italian
Duration 3 years
Positions 4 positions. More information in the PhD Programme Table
Application deadline Oct 20, 2021 at 11:59 PM (Expired)
Enrolment period From Nov 05, 2021 to Nov 12, 2021
Doctoral programme start date Jan 01, 2022
Operating centre
Bologna
Main Department
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies - FICLIT
Curricula
  1. Sciences of antiquity and Sciences of books and documents
  2. Italian Studies and Romance Philology
Research topics

Curriculum 1: Sciences of antiquity and Sciences of books and documents

  • Aegean Civilizations
  • Greek language and literature
  • Latin language and literature
  • Classical and late antique philology
  • Linguistics
  • Digital Humanities
  • Bibliography
  • Paleography
  • Classical heritage

 

Curriculum 2: Italian Studies and Romance Philology

  • Italian literature
  • Contemporary Italian literature
  • Italian linguistics and philology
  • Literary criticism
  • Romance Philology
  • Linguistics
  • Linguistics of Italian language
  • Digital Humanities
Job opportunities and potential areas of employment
- Academic research and teaching
- Teaching in secondary school
- Traditional and digital publishing
- Career in journalism
- Career in the Public Administration
- Digital Management of Cultural Resources
- Design, production and valorisation of Web resources.
Admission Board

Surname Name University Role email
Atzori Fabio Università di Bologna Member
Baroncini Daniela Università di Bologna Member
Gangemi Aldo Università di Bologna Member
Italia Paola Maria Carmela Università di Bologna Member
Bazzocchi Marco Antonio Università di Bologna Substitute
Chines Loredana Università di Bologna Substitute
Coluccia Chiara Università di Bologna Substitute
Tomasi Francesca Università di Bologna Substitute
Learning outcomes
Achievement of a fine strategy for scientific research on literary texts. This methodology entails a wide-ranging to approach the texts, involving critical editions, analyses on literary reception, inquiries on formal, linguistic, stylistic levels. As far as Linguistics is concerned, candidates will learn to describe linguistic phenomena from a syncronistic and historical point of view. As far as Digital Humanities and Semantic Technologies are concerned, students will learn how to hybridize humanistic and computational methods in a variety of use cases. Such a complex methodology provides skills for a variety of different educational paths and for many professional fields: in particular, for university research and teaching, for teaching in secondary school, for careers in publishing companies, journalism and cultural consultancy in public administration and in the areas of interface between new technologies and human sciences.
Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates
Bibliographic inquiries and text readings. Original research focusing on a wide range of advanced issues (including reading of manuscripts and ancient editions, consultation of archives, processing of digital archives and online data, analyses based on philological and linguistic perspectives) for the achievement of a fine methodology for scientific research on literary texts such as critical editions and the study of literary reception and history of ideas. As far as Linguistics is concerned, research activities will focus on a wide range of linguistic systems and linguistic descriptions. As regards Digital Humanities and Semantic Technologies, research activities will include: application-oriented projects (use case satisfaction); implementation of reusable software or middleware components; design of ontologies or conceptual models; empirical studies on data, digital content and users; interdisciplinary experiments or theoretical studies, e.g. jointly with cognitive scientists or philosophers.
Research training activities compliant with the Doctoral programme's learning outcomes
In the first and second year of the PhD Programme teaching involves at least 100 hours per year organized as follows:
- 30 hours of common activities (also dedicated to soft skills such as European project planning, public speaking, academic English, etc.);
- 50 hours of curricular activities;
- 20 hours of free activities (for participation in conferences, seminars, etc.);
- free teaching activities are authorized and approved by the supervisor.
The common and curricular activities run from October to June and are organized in three quarters. The schedule of all activities is published on the PhD website, in the agenda section (https://phd.unibo.it/[…]/agenda). The teaching activities of the Digital Humanities and Linguistics courses, which replace the curricular activities, are published, respectively, on the website of the DHARC - Digital Humanities Advanced Research Center (https://centri.unibo.it/dharc/en) and of the CLUB - Language Circle of the University of Bologna (http://corpora.ficlit.unibo.it/CLUB/). The activities of the Digital Humanities and Linguistics courses are in any case also accessible to PhD students of the two main curricula. The teaching activities also include the attendance of master's degree courses, with the preliminary approval of the supervisor; in this case one hour of PhD teaching is equivalent to two hours of master's teaching. This type of teaching can replace curricular or free teaching, not the common one. PhD candidates, always with the preliminary approval of the supervisor, may ask to replace part of curricular and free teaching activities with teaching or tutoring assignments that require an adequate and documented preliminary preparation phase. In the third year the hours of compulsory teaching are 60 (30 of common teaching and 30 of curricular or free teaching), to give space to the writing of the thesis. Lectures and seminars are held also by external, both Italian and foreign, teachers.
Internationalization features
All PhD candidates must spend a period of at least six months in a foreign university. The PhD Programme has signed a framework agreement with the Universidade de Sao Paulo and a framework agreement is being activated with the Université Paris Nanterre. Starting from the XXXV cycle, the teaching staff is made up of 1/3 of teachers from foreign universities. Teaching activities are carried out also by foreign visiting professors, hosted in the department FICLIT within the activities of the project of excellence (Law 232 of December 1st, 2016).
The PhD Programme has a strong international attractivity: 3 PhD candidates, funded by China Scholarship Council and a PhD candidate funded by a scholarship reserved for non-Italian applicants (Progetto di eccellenza L. 232 del 01/12/2016) are currently enrolled in the programme. Individual co-tutelle agreements have been signed with Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Université de Limoges, Université de Lausanne, University of Zurich, Université de Liege.
Expected research results and products
Throughout the three-years course at least one presentation in a national or international Conference is expected, and the publication of an article in a scientific journal level. A special acknowledgement for publishing the PhD dissertation.
Doctoral programme Academic Board
Surname Name University/Institution Qualification
Bazzocchi Marco Antonio Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Benvenuti Giuliana Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Brunetti Giuseppina Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Campana Andrea Università di Bologna Ricercatore a tempo determinato
Caruana Sandro University of Malta (Malta) Professore Ordinario
Castillo Gomez Antonio Universidad de Alcala de Henares Professore Ordinario
Chines Loredana Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Citti Francesco Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Condello Federico Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
De Gregorio Giuseppe Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Ercoles Marco Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Ferrara Silvia Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Florimbii Francesca Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Fornara Simone SUPSI (Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana) Professore Ordinario
Gangemi Aldo Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Garulli Valentina Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Giannini Gabriele Université de Montréal (Canada) Professore Associato
Gianollo Chiara Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Grandi Nicola Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Höschele Regina Toronto (Canada) Professore Associato
Konstantakos Ioannis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) Professore Associato
Luglio Davide Sorbonne Université (France) Professore Associato
Pasetti Lucia Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Pieri Bruna Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario
Sberlati Francesco Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Tinti Paolo Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Tomasi Francesca Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Tripaldi Daniele Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Veglia Marco Università di Bologna Professore Associato
Wallraff Martin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) Professore Ordinario
Weber Luigi Università di Bologna Professore Associato