ANNUAL REPORT 2022-2023
Foreword.
The PhD programme Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation (henceforth SELLT) was established from the 34th cycle and has been accredited as an international doctorate in co-tutorship with the University of Silesia in Katowice awarding PhD students a double final degree. The teaching and management of students' careers therefore takes place in collaboration between the two universities, which offer courses, seminars and supervision activities both for the students' overall training in relation to academic research activities and for the thesis work linked to the student's research project. A supervisor and a co-supervisor are assigned to each student, one belonging to the admission universitty and the other to the partner institution.
Sapienza admissions for the 2023 academic year also included a PNRR Next Generation scholarship and thus four students were admitted, three with a scholarship and one without. The partner institution selected, as every year, two students with their own Polish scholarship.
For the academic year 2022-2023, the doctoral activities were developed in the following areas: 1) Integrated teaching offer of Sapienza and Silesia seminar activities; 2) Lectures and Conferences offered at Sapienza; 3) Study stays and institutional and individual research activities 4) Qualifying exams between years; 5) Conclusion of the 35th cycle students' course of study.
1. Integrated teaching of Sapienza and Silesia seminar activities
Lectures and seminars were held entirely in English and in a hybrid mode, so as to allow doctoral students resident in the two locations or on a research mission to also participate. SELLT envisages research projects for a linguistic curriculum or a literary curriculum, and therefore in consideration of this basic choice, the training offer is declined on the two paths.
As far as Sapienza is concerned, a constant training aim has been to provide all PhD students with a series of multidisciplinary tools and contents related to theories, critical approaches and linguistic and literary texts, while keeping a careful eye on the research areas that SELLT favours due to its vocation and to the skills of the Board's lecturers, as can be seen from the presentation of the PhD programme. In particular, for the year 2022-2023, linguistic approaches to special languages have been privileged through a macro-seminar that brought together all the English linguistics lecturers of the Sapienza University, historical linguistics, audiovisual translation, Renaissance poetry, and new discourses on the post-human (the entire calendar and a summary in Italian and English of the contents of the individual seminars are attached).
First-year students are required to attend all seminars in both the linguistic and literary curricula. Second-year students together with their supervisors may agree on a selection of the seminars and courses offered based on their research project for a percentage of 70%. Third-year students, together with their supervisors, can also agree on a selection of seminars and courses offered based on their research project, but, as is also indicated on the educational programme page, they will mainly be required to write their thesis and organise a graduate forum.
The didactic programme for 2022-2023 has been set up to allow students to combine the learning of theories, approaches, linguistic and literary methodologies with workshop activities in which the tutor on duty can also guide them in reading and analysing the chosen texts according to the theoretical and critical profiles illustrated. Below is the synthetic programme of the meetings, with logistical indications, while the extended illustration of the contents is in the attached file.
PhD STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
Sapienza, University of Rome and University of Silesia, in Katowice
TUTORIALS
a.a. 2022-2023
Sapienza Venue: Sala Riunioni 2 ‘Marco Polo’
10-13
15-18
I year students: attendance at all seminars, workshops, and conferences is mandatory
II and III year students: attendance at selected seminars, workshops, and conferences is mandatory (to be arranged with supervisors and coordinator)
Any changes or variations in the programme will be communicated promptly
For the various seminars, a list of texts to be read in preparation for the meeting will be sent to students in advance. Student participation is strongly recommended through questions and remarks, which, thanks to the readings done, will be able to be more relevant even if the lectures do not strictly refer to the student's area of research.
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November |
Gordon Hutner
(University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign- Sapienza Fulbright)
Jane Desmond
(University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
Rosanna Camerlingo
(Università di Perugia)
Gordon Hutner
(University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign- Sapienza Fulbright)
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2
14
Lab 5 Marco Polo
4.15 p.m
15
Room 104, 17-19
16
13-15
Vetrerie F
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Publish or perish! How to publish on an academic journal
Beyond Humanism and Anthropocentrism
Law and Literature (I)
Tribunali terrestri e tribunali celesti: giudici e imputati nel teatro di Shakespeare (in Italian)
Budd Schulberg’s World War |
December
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Carmen Gallo
(Sapienza Università di Roma) |
2 |
Poetry Theories and Poetry Practices.
Reading Poetry from New Criticism to New Historicism (I)
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January
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Marina Morbiducci
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Cinzia Giglioni
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Chiara Prosperi Porta
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Laura Ferrarotti
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Laura Di Ferrante
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Renzo Mocini
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
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12
19
19
19
26
26 |
Specialized Communication in English:
An introduction to the multifaceted scenario of 'specialized' linguistics (I)
Linguistic perspectives on political discourse: the case of congressional hearings. (II)
Features of English for economics and finance: genres and discourses across time (III)
The Linguistic Landscape and its Use in the EFL and ESL classroom (IV)
From academic discourse to science communication: Linguistic processes and communicative strategies (V)
A multifunctional model for specialized discourse: explorations and applications (VI)
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February |
Robert Stagg
(Oxford University- The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford)
Conference: Elizabethan poetry
Conference: Early modern multilingualism and translation
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7-8
9-10
16-17 |
Poetry Theories and Poetry Practices. (II)
Metre and Rhythm in Medieval and Early Modern English Poetry
'Living fame no fortune can confound': Richard Barnfield's Legacy
Multilingual didactic texts in Early Modern Europe and across Continents
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March |
Angela Andreani
(Università di Milano Statale)
Elena Semino
(Lancaster University)
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16
27-28
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Historical linguistics (I)
Philological research in material and digital archives: The Elizabethan State Papers as a case study
Stylistics
Introduction to Mind Style
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April |
Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University )
Katherine Baxter
(Northumbria University)
Javier Ruano Garcia
(University of Salamanca)
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13
20
26-27
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The Italian Empire and Transnational Resistance: CLR James, Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst
Law and Literature
Imagining the future of big game in Colonial British Somaliland (II)
Historical linguistics (II)
Dialect enregisterment in historical contexts: Late Modern English in focus
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May |
Frederic Chaume Varela
(Universitat Jaume I, Spagna)
Patrick Zabalbeascoa
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Christopher Rundle
(Università di Bologna)
Serenella Zanotti
(Università di Roma Tre)
Ugo Rubeo
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
Andrea Romanzi
(University of Reading, UK) |
12-13
18
25
26
26 |
Translation Studies
Modes and methodologies in audiovisual translation
The problem of translation during fascism
Genetic Translation Studies: An Introduction
E.A. Poe (Lost) in Translation
Fernanda Pivano and the translation of the Beat Generation. A microhistorical and microsociological approach
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June |
Florian Mussgnug
(University College London)
Carmen Gallo
(Sapienza Università di Roma)
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5-6
7 |
Enviromental studies
The Self-Conscious Anthropocene: New Imaginaries and Genres
Natural contamination and historical devastation: Eliot’s environmental allegories in The Waste Land
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The University of Silesia's teaching offer presented both compulsory and optional courses for all students attending the joint doctorate. Each year, the partner location provides courses aimed at training the doctoral student and researcher in the field and academic activities: Academic English; Teaching Skills; Intellectual Property Law; Ethics in Research; Scientific Career Planning and Personal Development. The courses are delivered at a distance and total approximately 90 hours (attached file).
In addition to the didactic activities modulated in seminar and workshop sessions, lectures and conferences dedicated to the thematic and research areas are listed in the attached file.
2) Study Stays
During AY 22-23, all students, also with the help of University funds, spent the planned period at the partner location, where they carried out research activities, constant discussions with their Polish supervisors, and teaching activities. Many students participated in conferences and symposia in various parts of Europe and the United States.
3) Qualifying exams
The passage-of-year exams concerned students in the 37th and 38th cycles. By agreement with the partner institution, first-year students (38th cycle) took the transition interview in front of a committee composed of Sapienza supervisors. Students discussed both readings agreed with their supervisor and related to the research project, and the evolution of the project itself after one year of research activity.
By agreement with Silesia University, the second-year students (37th cycle) undertook the transition interview in front of a large board of the Silesia Doctoral School and then in front of a committee of three members, one Sapienza and two Silesia. The student discusses the progress of his research project and the methodological issues guiding it. All students passed the interview brilliantly.
4) Graduate Forum: Cycle 35 students organised a Graduate Forum entitled
Horizons of Marginality (11 May 2023). Poster and book of abstracts attached.
5) Cycle 35: Final Defence
Three 35th-cycle students, Daphne Orlandi, Davide Passa and Giacomo Traina, successfully interviewed for the final defence in May and October 2023.
6) Funded Sapienza Junior Research Projects:
Tipo 1 (1000,00–2000,00 €):
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Paolo D’Indinosante, The British Empire in Verse: Patriotic Poetry Anthologies in Great Britain, 1880–1914 (1600,00 €)
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Emiliana Russo, Investigating the Original Pronunciation (OP) Phenomenon at Shakespeare’s Globe from 2004 to 2015 (1400,00 €)
Tipo 2 (2000,00–4000,00 €):
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Giacomo Traina, L’Aprile Nero: Il Ricordo della Caduta di Saigon tra Letteratura e Memoria Pubblica (3200,00 €)