Official Doctorate in Language, Literature and Culture

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Doctoral Program in Language, Literature and Culture

General Aims
Doctorate Structure
Lines of Research
Doctoral Thesis Directors
Admission
Contact
Department in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
Collaborating departments
Received grants

General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

To incorporate the students into a research group.
To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
To produce a doctoral thesis.

Structure of Doctorate

The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses

Department: Catalan Studies

Lines of Research: Phraseology and Syntax; Grammar, Variation and Standardization

Thesis directors:

Jordi Ginebra Serrabou
Joaquim Mallafrè Gavaldà
Pere Navarro Gómez
Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona
Olga Cubells Bartolomé

Lines of Research: Genre, Ethnopoetics and Folklore Studies; National Mythology and Symbology

Thesis Directors:

Magí Sunyer Molné
Montserrat Corretger Sáez
Jesús Francesc Massip Bonet
Maria del Carme Oriol Carazo
Montserrat Palau Vergés
Josep Maria Pujol Sanmartín
Elisabeth Russell Brown (Dpt. of English and German Studies)

Lines of Research: Literary Theory

Thesis Directors:

Margarida Aritzeta Abad, Elisabeth Russell Brown (Dpt. of English and German Studies)

Lines of Research:Catalan Literature

Thesis Directors:

Magí Sunyer Molné
Montserrat Corretger Sáez
Jesús Francesc Massip Bonet
Maria del Carme Oriol Carazo
Montserrat Palau Vergés
Josep Maria Pujol Sanmartín

Lines of Research:Lexicon and phraseology

Thesis Directors:

Jordi Ginebra Serrabou
Pere Navarro Gómez

Lines of Research: Cultural studies

Thesis Directors:

Jesús Francesc Massip Bonet
Jesús Carruesco García

Lines of Research: Catalan lexicography; Terminology and speciality languages

Thesis Directors:

Xavier Rull Muruzàbal

Department: English and German Studies

Lines of Research: Translation

Thesis Directors:

Cristóbal Esteban Scott-Tennent Basallote
Jordi Jané Carbó
Macià Riutort Riutort
John Glenmore Style

Lines of Research: German Literature

Thesis Director: Jordi Jane Carbó

Lines of Research: German Linguistics

Thesis Director: Macià Riutort Riutort

Lines of Research: English Literature

Thesis Director: John Glenmore Style, Pere Gallardo Torrano, Elisabeth Russell Brown, Jordi Lamarca Margalef, Maria Cristina Andreu Jiménez, Dolors Collellmir Morales, María del Carmen Rueda Ramos.

Lines of Research: Phonetics and Phonology; General Linguistics

Thesis Directors: Joaquín Romero Gallego

Lines of Research: Applied Linguistic

Thesis Directors:

Mª del Mar Gutiérrez-Colón Plana

Lines of Research: Cultural studies

Thesis Directors: Pere Gallardo Torrano, Elisabeth Russell Brown, Jordi Lamarca Margalef, Maria Cristina Andreu Jiménez, Dolors Collellmir Morales.

Elena Ferran Larraz

Lines of Research: English for specific purposes (ESP)

Thesis Directors: María del Carmen Rueda Ramos

Lines of Research: Statistics applied to linguistics

Thesis Directors: Pedro Medina

Department: Romance Studies

Lines of Research:

Spanish as a Foreign Language
Pragmatics
Oral Language
Theoretical and Applied Lexicography
History of Spanish
Language Variation
Natural Languages and Formal Languages
Biology of Language
French as a foreing language
Spanish and Spanish American literature
Lexicon and phraseology
History of teaching of foreign or second languages
Cultural studies

Thesis Directors:

Esther Forgas Berdet
Maria Bargalló Escrivà
Antonio Mª García Español
María Dolores Jiménez López
Gemma Bel Enguix
Natàlia Català Torres
Juan Francisco García Bascuñana
Sara Pujol Russell
Sandra Iglesia Martín
Antonio Nomdedeu Rull

Department: History and History of Art

Lines of Research:

History and philosophy of music
Musical drama
Music, word and image: music as an interdisciplinary art
Art and culture of the Baroque. Women, music and the Baroque
Catalan and Latin-American art
20th-century art
History of the cinema. Spanish cinema
History of dance
Visual arts and medieval iconography
Tragedy, myth and drama

Thesis Directors:

Emma María del Pilar Liaño Martínez
Antonio Salcedo Miliani
José Carlos Suárez Fernández
Licia Butta
Maria Rosa Tamarit Sumalla
Ana Eulalia Cazurra Basté

Department: Pedagogy

Thesis Directors:

Albert Macaya Ruiz

Admission

Maximum number of students: 17
Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.
The specific admission and selection criteria for this official doctoral programme are the following: