Humanities - PhD

Doctoral programme of the UPF Doctoral School, governed by Royal Decree 99/2011

Duration of the doctoral programme	Your doctoral thesis must be submitted within three academic years as of admission, with the possibility of an extension of one further year.
Languages	Catalan and Spanish
Places available	50
Organized	Departament of Humanities
Calendar and time schedule	From September to June. Full time dedication.
Location	Ciutadella campus

Program with a Quality Mention concedes by the Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad, ANECA)

Presentation

The doctorate in Humanities is in keeping with the most innovative lines of research in the last twenty years in the fields of art, literature and thought: from the aesthetics of reception and hermeneutic analysis to deconstruction, in addition to other of our own methodological orientations, resulting from each of the areas, which, despite each being specific in its own right, will be constantly contrasted and related transversally allowing a fresh look at the subjects of study. The lines of research coincide with those of the master's degree in Art, Literature and Thought, as well as with those pursued by the University Institute of Culture and the Department of Humanities at UPF.

Objectives

The main objective of this programme is to train students to advanced level in the humanities. Students are provided with the necessary instruments to be able to further both their academic training in general and prepare for research in the fields of art, literature and thought. The design of this programme comes in response to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary structure that the Department of Humanities and the University Institute of Culture provide in order to promote comparative studies in each of the fields, as well as the possible relationships that might exist between them.

Contents

• Defense of the Thesis Project (5 ECTS credits)
• Permanent Training Seminar in Humanities (5 ECTS credits)

Important:

Access to the doctoral programme requires having passed a total of 300 ECTS credits (of which at least 60 must correspond to an official postgraduate programme/university master's degree in the Research modality). If the student does not hold a master's degree in the RESEARCH modality, during the first year of the doctoral programme he/she will have to register, in addition to the two subjects mentioned above (Defense of Thesis Project and Permanent Training Seminar Seminar Humanities), for 30 ECTS credits in subjects within the Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought -MA.

1. Research Work (20 ECTS credits)
2. Introduction to Doctoral Research (5 ECTScredits)
3. Advanced Theories Methods for Research in Humanities (5 ECTS credits)

Lines of research of the doctorate

• European Art and Non-Western Cultures  
• Art and Nature
• Philological Edition of Literary Texts
• Aesthetics, Mysticism and Hermeneutics
• Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Ways in which Subjectivity Appears in the Literary and Performative Genres
• History of Literary Creation
• History of Philosophical Schools
• History of Artistic Movements  
• Image, Symbol and Vision
• Intertextuality and Rewriting
• Contemporary Catalan Literature
• Comparative Literature
• Travel Literature
• Literature and Visual Arts
• Literature and Politics
• Literatures of European tradition
• Orality and Writing
• Poetics and Rhetoric: Strategies for Reading
• Relations between Philosophy and Literature
• Cultural Representations: Questions and Identities of Genre
• Art Theory and Criticism
• Theory and History of Literary Reception

List of teaching staff and research staff for supervising theses and doctorates

APARICIO MAYDEU, Javier	Spanish Literature	University Professor
ARGULLOL MURGADAS, Rafael	Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts	University Professor
BERGA BAGUÉ, Miquel	English Philology	University lecturer with tenure
BESA CAMPRUBÍ, Carles	French Philology	University lecturer with tenure
CASALS PONS, Jaume	Philosophy	University lecturer with tenure
CIRLOT VALENZUELA, Victòria	Romanic Philology	University lecturer with tenure
COTS VICENTE, Montserrat	French Philology	University Professor
FERNÁNDEZ BUEY, Francisco Javier	Moral Philosophy	University Professor
GARCÍA FELGUERA, M. Santos	History of Art	University Professor
GAROLERA CARBONELL, Narcís	Catalan Philology	Professor emeritus
GIBERT PUJOL, Miquel María	Filologia Catalana	University Professor
GIFRA ADROHER, Pere	English Philology	University Professor
IBÁÑEZ FANÉS, Jorge	Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts	University lecturer with tenure
MALET TOMÀS, Antoni	History of Science	University Professor
MARÍ MUÑOZ, Antoni	History of Art	Professor emeritus
MICÓ JUAN, Josep Maria	Spanish Literature	University Professor
MONEGAL BRANCÓS, Antonio José	Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature	Univeersity lecturer with tenure
MORRÁS RUIZ-FALCÓ, María	Spanish Literature	University lecturer with tenure
NODAR DOMINGUEZ, Alberto	Greek Philology	Senior Lecturer
OCAMPO SIQUIER, Estela	History of Art	University lecturer with tenure
OLIVER ROTGER, María Antonia	English Philology	Senior Lecturer
OLLÉ RODRÍGUEZ, Manel	East Asian Studies	University lecturer with tenure
OLLER ROVIRA, Dolors	Theory of Literature and Comparative	Literature University Professor
PÉREZ-BORBUJO ÁLVAREZ, Fernando	Moral Philosophy	University Professor
PFEIFFER, Michael	German Philology	University lecturer with tenure
RODENAS DE MOYA, Domingo	Spanish Literature	University lecturer with tenure
TRENCHS I PARERA, Mireia	English Philology	University lecturer with tenure
TRIAS SAGNIER, Eugenio	Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts	Professor emeritus
VALVERDE ZARAGOZA, Isabel	History of Art	University Professor
VEGA ESQUERRA, Amador	Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts	University lecturer with tenure
VINARDELL PUIG, Teresa	German Philology	University lecturer with tenure