PhD Programme in ENGLISH STUDIES
The PhD programme in English Studies is aimed at high qualified scholars who will be able to carry out specialized research in the field of English literature and linguistics as well as in cultural and (cross)disciplinary areas. The core of the PhD programme revolves around the studies of the English linguistics, English literature and culture with a particular attention to synchronic and diachronic periodisations, from the Middle Ages to the present days, and on a range of methodologies which includes up-to-date critical and analytical skills, also digital competences that are required in an international context. The course also provides students with the acquisition of critical and practical tools in the field of the new media and the teaching of the English language and literature.
Consistently with the Dublin Descriptors, the educational goals include the acquisition of skills and competences related to the English Studies, that is, the development of critical and methodological skills, the ability to carry out researches that will contribute to the advancement of the knowledge in the field of linguistics, literature and culture of the anglophone world.
The Faculty belongs to the following areas (Italian “gruppo scientifico-disciplinari”):10/ANGL-01 – ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES (ANGL-01/A – English Literature, ANGL-01/C – English Language and Linguistics)
Coordinator: Prof. Anna Enrichetta Soccio
- English Linguistics
- Translation and Adaptation Studies
- Accessibility to English Media
- Studies on Multilingualism and Varieties of English
- History of the English Language
- English Stylistics
- EAP and ESP
- Multimodal Discourse Studies in English
- Teaching English Literature
- Teaching the English Language
- Theories and Methods of Literary Discourse
- Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Drama
- Theatre Studies from the 17th to the 21st Century
- Victorian ed Edwardian Studies
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Postcolonial Literatures
- Migration Studies
- Anglo-Italian Studies