PhD in Humanities, Languages and Arts

In this PhD programme, traditional philological-literary skills – which are essential for adequately training teachers and researchers – are combined with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, diachronic, and comparative approach that includes the use of digital information and communication technologies in the Humanities. These technologies are now essential for creating corpora, archives, lexicons, databases, and repertoires of "realia", as well as dynamic and collaborative scientific editions which are firmly anchored in the epistemological foundations of philological-linguistic and historical-literary disciplines. They offer unlimited space to accommodate a wide array of multimedia content which is constantly expandable and – whether created by the researcher or drawn from external electronic resources – can be potentially related to the tradition and interpretation of texts and the study of literary, linguistic, artistic, and performative phenomena. The digital environment facilitates dissemination within the international scientific community that can directly access primary sources and secondary literature, assess the researcher's choices, and contribute to expanding the corpus of texts under analysis or revising those that are already available, in line with new authorship and textuality paradigms.

To address the "social challenges" related to the creative industry and inclusive and sustainable cultural development, the programme will leverage the best technologies for managing and disseminating research outputs. These technologies promote a more democratic, self-conscious, and participatory access to specialized knowledge. Research projects that use digital tools to investigate the literary texts and all forms of expressions—written, visual, and auditory—in ancient and modern languages, as well as artistic manifestations, will be emphasized. These projects examine – from a perspective of long-term preservation – the journey of literary texts and all forms of expression (written, visual, and auditory) of ancient and modern languages and of artistic performance. This includes not only their creation and establishment but also their dissemination, creative reception, transformation, and modernization. Archives, repositories, and digital lexicons offer a practical solution to the need for organizing and integrating a complex network of diverse content from various sources.

These skills are expressed in the three proposed curricula: the philological-literary curriculum, which brings together traditional and innovative training for Humanities teachers and scholars; the language and translation curriculum, also focused on communication and the diverse cultural demands of the territory; and the arts, theatre, music, and performance curriculum, which finds its strength in a diverse range of skills in ancient and modern theatre, music, cinema, and visual arts.

This doctoral programme also pays close attention to the new frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, ensures full mastery of academic English, and promotes the acquisition of adequate skills in research systems and project funding, research valorisation, and intellectual property.