LETTERS
The Graduate Program in Literature, at the master’s and doctoral levels, focuses on two areas of concentration: Literature and Cultural Practices and Linguistics and Transculturality. The main objectives of this Program are: to train professionals for university teaching and research activities in the field of Literature, in order to meet the demand of Mato Grosso do Sul and neighboring states; to establish itself as a center for research and production of advanced knowledge on the topics involved; to create an effective space for interdisciplinary reflection, meeting scientific demands; to participate in national and international debate forums, in order to further align the research developed within the scope of the Program and its policies with the global scenario.
RESEARCH LINES AND THEIR SPECIFICATIONS:
AREA: LITERATURE AND CULTURAL PRACTICES
- LITERATURE IN MULTIPLE DIALOGUES
This line studies Literature and Culture in terms of the relationships between the diversity of cultural spaces and different temporalities, based on Cultural, Regional Studies and Comparative Literature.
- LITERATURE, CULTURE AND FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE
This line of research studies literature considering its relations with other knowledge, media and the cultural and interdisciplinary practices arising from them. It includes interarts studies, literature and other disciplines (such as history, anthropology, sociology) and literature and teaching.
AREA: LINGUISTICS AND TRANSCULTURALITY
- STUDY OF LANGUAGE(S) IN COMPLEX CONTEXTS
Languages (Portuguese, indigenous, sign and foreign) are studied in complex contexts, researching everything from the formation and construction of teacher and student identities, acquisition of writing, discursive/textual genres in different contexts, literacy practices in contemporary processes of inclusion and exclusion, as well as carrying out linguistic descriptions that support the production of materials and teaching resources aimed at language teaching.
- LANGUAGE(S) AND DISCOURSE STUDIES
Studies language-discourse focusing on different processes of production, reception and circulation of meanings in varied forms of verbal, non-verbal and/or verbal-visual expression.