PhD Programme Teams

Team 1

Areas of research: Acquisition, teaching, and assessment of second and foreign languages, Language acquisition, Applied linguistics, language evaluation (testing), second language teaching and learning, Catalan philology, Contact with languages and bilingualism, Contemporary Catalan language and literature, Second and foreign language learning environments: formal teaching, integrated content and language learning, stays abroad in countries where the target language is spoken, Corpus linguistics, Historical phonology and phonetics of Spanish, Synchrony and diachrony, History of the Catalan language, Historical morphosyntax of Spanish, Language change and variation, Popular literature, Onomastics and Perception and production of L2 speech

Programme Oversight

Participating Lecturers

Team 2

Areas of research: 18th-century baroque poetry, especially Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo and Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, 19th-century literature, 20th-century Spanish poetry, novels, and theatre, Poetic self-representation of the female, Bartolomé Jiménez Patón, British literature from the 18th to the 21st centuries., Cervantes, Communication studies, Contemporary Catalan literature, Contemporary Spanish literature, Cultural studies, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Textual criticism of texts from the Spanish Golden Age, Emblems, Literary aesthetics, Gender studies, Postcolonial studies, History of Catalan culture, History of theatre, History of Catalan theatre, Humanism, Interculturality, Medieval Catalan literature, Modern Catalan literature, Literature by female authors, Literature in the German language, Literature in the French language, Literature in the Portuguese language, Modernity and the avant-garde, Spanish Golden Age preachers, The presence of Spanish classics in contemporary literature, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Reader-response criticism and Shakespeare

Programme Oversight

Participating Lecturers

Team 3

Areas of research: Aesthetics, Anthropology, Modern roots of contemporary thought. Montaigne. Descartes, Contemporary Hispanic philosophy, The concept of the person in bioethics, The concept of solidarity, The study and translation of the works of F. Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Heidegger, Philosophy of science and public policies on science and technology, Greek philosophy: pre-Socratic philosophy, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Hellenistic philosophy, formation of vocabulary used in Greek philosophy, doxography, Diogenes Laërtius, Social and political philosophy, German idealism, especially Hegel, History of ideas, History of medieval, Renaissance, and modern thought, Links between epistemology, ethics, and politics in modern and contemporary thought, Origins of philosophy: Greek religion, Orphism, Dionysism, Greco-Roman mysteries, Neoplatonism, Derveni papyrus, Chrysippus, Stoicism, Religion and criticism in society: Walter Benjamin and The link between metaphysics and ethics. The link between the theory of knowledge and anthropology

Programme Oversight

Participating Lecturers

Thesis advisors for this programme (UIB)

Thesis advisors for this programme (Others than UIB)