Research Area and Lines

Research Area

Literature Studies
The Literature Studies Research Area seeks to have researches which bring relevant issues for the area and prioritize the literary manifestations analysis in relation to cultural, social, historical and aesthetics aspects, especially on themes subordinated to the research lines of the Program. The analysis encompasses theory and criticism as well as interfaces between literature and other knowledge areas and media.

Research Line 1: Literature, history, culture and society
This line aims at studying the literary manifestations understood as social practices both at the oral and written level at different socio-cultural-historical contexts.

Research Line 2: Literature, Disciplines and Media
This line aims at studying the literary manifestations according to different theoretical approaches about the relations between literature and other disciplines, understood in its artistic, publishing, digital dimensions, regarding their materiality, means of circulation and those engaged in the process.