In the 37 years of its running, Italian Studies Ph.D. at "La Sapienza" University has represented an important reference point - not only in the Italian context but also abroad - for research training in fields which are relevant to the study of Italian Literature and literary cultures since the Middle Ages, both in the Italian Language and in the other languages of
Italian Literature (such as Latin and Italian dialects).
Based on such targets, the Ph.D. Program has organized specific educational pathways, with cycles of lectures for Ph.D. students, as well as seminars and conferences with Italian and foreign scholars on issues related to the research of postgraduates students.
The Ph.D. Board carefully assess the consistency of this educational path (as in the past, and taking into account the new dispositions concerning doctoral programs) and its specific didactic program, with the educational needs of the graduate students first and foremost, aiming at providing the doctoral students with opportunities to
gain experience in different fields, provided that they are coherent as for methods and instruments, and the ongoing reformation of the doctoral programs.
Particularly, the goal of the PhD program in Italian Studies at La Sapienza is to promote education in:
1. philological research on Italian Literary writers textual tradition, both handwritten and printed, in order to form students, who have this specific interest, to make critical editions of high quality texts, with fundamental and innovative ecdotic techniques;
2. historical and critical research on the whole of Italian Literature, in order to provide students, who develop this particular interest, with the fundamental and most innovative instruments to produce high quality studies on the issues of periodization and characterization of the different phases and typologies of Italian literature, and the dynamic of its cultural models, Italian writers experiences, analysis, interpretation and evaluation of texts, their form and style, their reception and tradition;
3. an awareness of contemporary critical methods and theories and the comparative framework of literary traditions and literary cultures, both in the longue durée and the present of our tradition, with researches on the diffusion of Italian literature and Italian cultural models abroad, the intellectual emigration, non-native Italian writers, and native Italian
writers in other languages;
4. improvement of bibliographic and digital skills with workshops and activities;
5. to learn how to participate, with adequate information, to competitive tenders. |