The Program

PPGLEN Graduate Program in Neo-Latin Studies

Our History

since 1951

The Graduate Program in Neo-Latin Studies was founded in 1983, grounded on the configuration of Graduate Programs in Letters (Languages and Literatures), which were then organized in five large areas, namely Vernacular Letters, Linguistics and Philology, Science of Literature, Classic Letters, and Modern Letters. Until 2001, PPGLEN was structured in three concentration areas: Spanish Language and Hispanic Literatures, French Language and Literatures in French Language, and Italian Language and Literature. Since its foundation, the Program developed its teaching and researching activities aiming at a real integration between linguistic and literary studies. It prioritized the interdisciplinary dialog between these three concentration areas by common research areas, which is the reason why the projects its of professors are not bound to areas, but to the research areas. Due to the continuous growing of each of these areas, in 2002 the Deliberative Board of PPGLEN restructured the program from its preexisting and productive research axes, which have also been defined by the language in the name of the area (be it Spanish, French or Italian) but mainly by domain of knowledge: literary studies or linguistic studies. Therefore, the concentration areas existing until 2001 were extinct and from then on the Program was redefined with the creation of two areas: Neo-Latin Literary Studies and Neo-Latin Linguistic Studies.

In 2013, facing a new demand from applicants from other areas (such as arts, architecture, and music), whose research profiles were also interesting to the Program, it was made possible to accept those professionals in order to foster interdisciplinary research. As a result, the research areas of the two previously mentioned areas were reformulated, two research areas being common to both areas, which highlights the interconnection between them.

The Program has a specific Line for Concentration Area:

Literary Studies Concentration Area:

Specific Research Line – Poetics, history and critics

Linguistic Studies Concentration Area:

Specific Research Line – Identity, cognition, and teaching

A Research Line common to both Areas:

Research Line – Translation Studies and linguistic-cultural contacts

 

Areas and Research Axes

The stricto sensu Graduate Program in Neo-Latin Studies includes: Neo-Latin Linguistic StudiesandNeo-Latin Literary Studies. It offer four options for graduation in each area, with specific programs for academic Master’s Degree and Doctoral:

AREA: NEO-LATIN LINGUISTIC STUDIES

Neo-Latin Linguistic Studies – Spanish Language
Neo-Latin Linguistic Studies – French Language
Neo-Latin Linguistic Studies – Italian Language
Neo-Latin Linguistic Studies – Languages and Cultures in Contact

AREA: NEO-LATIN LITERARY STUDIES

Neo-Latin Literary Studies – Hispanic Literatures
Neo-Latin Literary Studies – French Language Literatures
Neo-Latin Literary Studies – Italian Literature
Neo-Latin Literary Studies – Languages and Cultures in Contact

Note: Applicants for Master’s Degree and Doctoral who opt for Languages and Cultures in Contact shall take Specific Knowledge Exam in Portuguese. As for the Foreign Language Proficiency Reading Exam they must choose a Neo-Latin language (Spanish, French, or Italian).

Diplomas shall be issued according to those options.

There are two specific Research Areas for each field of study.

Options: Spanish Language, French Language, Italian Language

Specific Research Line of the Linguistic Studies area: Identity, cognition, and teaching in Neo-Latin languages

Definition: Territory, language, and identity. Linguistic contact. Relations between orality and writing. Ecolinguistic description of variation and change. Linguistic Policies. Cognitive, linguistic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects in Neo-Latin languages. Linguistic-discursive representations in the construction of identities. Linguistic education and training process of Neo-Latin languages teachers.

 

Options: Hispanic Literatures, French Language Literatures, Italian Literature.

Specific Research Line of the Literary Studies area: Literary Studies: Poetics, history and critics

Definition: Poetics of writing. Theory and praxis of literary genres and their relations with other artistic discourses. Critical and metacritical discourse. Problems of the history of Neo-Latin literatures. Literary processes. Identity and development of imaginaries. Interdiscursive, transliterary, and intercultural relations. Literary field and social representations.

A Research Line common to both areas.

Options: Spanish Language, French Language, Italian Language

Options: Hispanic Literatures, French Language Literatures, Italian Literature.

Option: Languages and Cultures in Contact

Research Line common to both areas: Translation Studies and linguistic-cultural contacts

Definition: Translation Studies: theories and practices. Translation, interdiscursiveness, intertextuality, and interculturality. Translation, authorship, rewriting, and adaptation. Multiculturalism and languages. Cultural studies in transnational contexts. Languages, cognitive and discursive developments. Languages and cultures in contact Memory, contemporaneity, and territorialization.