2020: Balbina Moncada's doctoral thesis defense
2020: Judith Borràs' doctoral thesis defense
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Doctorate Programme in Territory, Heritage and Culture

Research lines

 

The Department of English and Linguistics participates in the following research lines of the Doctorate Programme in Territory, Heritage and Culture.

Applied Languages

The line in research in Applied Languages provides advanced training on specific areas of language learning and use in bi- and multilingual contexts and from different scientific and professional perspectives such as linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, education, translation/interpretation and ICT.

 

English Philology and Linguistics

The line of research in English Philology and Linguistics offers the students the necessary training for academic research on English language, English literature and English cultures, as well as elements related with both linguistics and technology.

Gender Studies

Analysis of reality and its representation using gender as a transdisciplinary analytical category that starts from the inequalities between men and women and refers to the traits and roles attributed to each sex in each historical moment and in each society. Gender relations are studied in different areas: literature, language, education, new technologies, media, urban planning and spatial planning, economy, history, etc.

 

More information is available on the doctorate’s web page: Territory, Heritage and Culture.

Doctoral Thesis

Department of English and Linguistics

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Thesis’ title

PhD student

Supervisor

Year
An exploration of English language learners’ emotions and beliefs in a Catalan context: Insights from self-reported experiences and observed classroom practices Irati DIERT BOTÉ Xavier Martin Rubio 2021
L2 reading and vocabulary development as a result of a study abroad experience Judith BORRÀS ANDRÉS Àngels Llanes Baró 2020
Lecturers' identities and practices in English-medium instruction at a Catalan University: an ethnographic study Balbina MONCADA COMAS David Block Allen 2020
A Mixed Methods Approach to Identity, Investment, and Language Learning in Study Abroad: The Case of Erasmus Students in Finland, Romania, and Catalonia Vasilica MOCANU Enric Llurda Giménez 2019
Modalities of Contemporary Thought and Behaviour in the Edwardian Fiction of Hilaire Belloc Lambert ESCORIHUELA PUJOL Brian Worsfold 2018
Discourses of Female Ageing in the Works of Erika Jong Ieva STONCIKAITE

Núria Casado Gual

Isabel Santaulària Capdevila

 2017
Discourses on Study Abroad: The Experience of Erasmus Students from a University in Catalonia Sònia MAS ALCOLEA

Josep M. Cots Caimons

Núria Casado Gual

 2017
Symbolic Transitions as Modalities of Aging: Intertextuality in the Life and Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Edgar Allan Poe Marta MIQUEL BALDELLOU Brian Worsfold 2016
Language Policy and Internationalisation: The experience of international students at a Catalan university Lidia GALLEGO BALSÀ Josep M. Cots Caimons 2014
A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Analysis of Chicano/a Identity: Discourses on Language, Literature and the Border Alana Gabrielle JACKSON

Josep M. Cots Caimons

Enric Llurda Giménez

 2011
Identity Construction in two Bilingual Communities. Clashing Nationalist Discourses
 Francisco Javier MARTIN RUBIO Josep M. Cots Caimons 2011
Women Detectives, Agents of Feminism, Androgynous Avatars in the Fiction of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs Maria del Carmen FARRÉ VIDAL Brian Worsfold 2011

 

Doctorate Programme in Education, Society and Quality of Life

The Department of English and Linguistics participates in the following research lines of the Doctorate Programme in Education, Society and Quality of Life:

 

Age, Creativity and Quality of Life

 

This research line belongs to the Age Studies, more precisely, "Aging Studies" and it is likewise related with the so called "Life Course Studies". As part of this wide theoretical framework directly linked with gerontology studies and cultural studies, this research line promotes research in cultural representations of any age and stage of life in either literature, cinema, theatre, television or arts in general. Research in "Age Studies", aims at combatting ageism and any other form of marginalization and stereotyping traditionally attached to different ages and vital stages. It also tries to promote intersectional studies of age in which the interaction between, age, gender, social class, sexuality and other features of identity are analysed. Within this research framework, art is regarded as both reflection of and source of influence in the cultural construction of age and the ageing process. Moreover, it recognizes creativity, in general, and artistic production, in particular, as qualitative components of life quality in any stage of the life cycle.

Research Group: Dedal-Lit

 

More information is available on the doctorate’s web page: Education, Society and Quality of Life