The Inter-university PhD Programme in Advanced English Studies: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, run by the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (USC) [COORDINATING INSTITUTION], A Coruña (UDC) and Vigo (UVigo), in Galicia (Northwestern Spain), is an accredited programme which meets the high standards of excellence of the European System of Higher Education. It has been evaluated and approved by the Spanish Ministry of Education (ID MEC: 5600811; date: 22/07/2013), the regional Quality Accreditation Agency of Galicia (ACSUG), and the National Quality Evaluation and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (ANECA).
This new PhD programme builds on the strength of previous doctoral programmes which have received Official Recognition for Excellence from the Spanish Ministry of Education for the period 2011-2014, under grants MEE2011-0070 and MEE2011-0300 (BOE 20/10/2011). Only four other PhD programmes in the field of English Studies were awarded this distinction.
The main objective of the PhD in English Studies is to train students to undertake research in the different fields of English Studies. More specifically, doctoral candidates will be provided with the professional skills and competences to write a doctoral thesis under the supervision of a specialist in the three Departments involved in the programme. This will include the following:
Specific objectives in the areas of Language and Linguistics will include the following:
Margarita Estévez Saá (USC): margarita.estevez.saa@usc.es // pd.estudosingleses@usc.es
María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (UDC): maria.lorenzo.modia@udc.es
Javier Pérez Guerra (UVigo): jperez@uvigo.es
Studies in English Literature and Culture |
Corpus Studies, Cognition, Variation and Language Change in English |
Studies in American Literature and Culture |
Linguistics Applied to Translation and the Teaching of English |
Studies in English Discourse |
Studies in Irish Literature and Culture |
Other Literatures in English |
-ESCOLA DE DOUTORAMENTO INTERNACIONAL USC: https://www.usc.gal/gl/centros/ciedus/
-ESCOLA INTERNACIONAL DE DOUTORAMENTO UDC: https://www.udc.es/gl/eid/
-ESCOLA INTERNACIONAL DE DOUTORAMENTO UVigo: https://www.uvigo.gal/es/estudiar/organizacion-academica/eido-escuela-internacional-doctorado
Students are required to apply to and register at only one of the three organising universities.