The Program in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English was structured and obtained accreditation in 1971 with the objective of training masters and doctors dedicated to research in the English Language and in English and North American Literatures. On that occasion, it was designated as the Postgraduate Program in English Language and English and North American Literatures. In 2003, this designation was replaced by the current one (Linguistic and Literary Studies in English), in order to express with greater precision the various changes registered, over time, in its faculty research lines and theoretical reflection.
The change was necessary not only due to the greater breadth that had come to characterize the related areas of knowledge, but also due to the theoretical and methodological transformations registered within them: on the one hand, applied linguistics had come to play a decisive role for reflections, and on the other hand, literary studies had extended their foci of interest beyond institutionalized and canonical literature produced in British and North American cultural contexts. This modification enabled greater conceptual objectivity in relation to the research horizons of the faculty, more faithfully expressing the very identity of the Program as a whole.
The Postgraduate Program in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English is dedicated to the study of symbolic productions and ideological structures in English-speaking cultural contexts, focusing on their linguistic aspects (uses, teaching and learning of the language and its relations with social and cultural practices), literary aspects (studies of the three genres, of the social determinations of literary products and of the relations between literature and other artistic languages, areas of knowledge and critical theories) and translation studies (linguistic aspects and technological devices, literary, political and cultural aspects and relations with critical activity)
The Program is structured into three sub-areas: Linguistic Studies, Literary Studies and Translation Studies. The structure of the Research Lines within the three sub-areas is as follows:
LINGUISTIC STUDIES SUB-AREA:
Language, Education and Society; Foreign Language and Education
TRANSLATION SUB-AREA:
Translation Studies
LITERARY STUDIES SUB-AREA:
Literary Contacts; Cultural Studies; Literature and History