English – About Program
Introduction
Literary studies encourage thought on the processes of symbolization of the world in which we live; they are focused on imagination and its devices. Literature is a culturally organized type of work which materializes and operates in art and in the different text genres permeating the modern and contemporary social space. Through the education of professionals for teaching and research purposes, developed in the Graduate Program in Literature, texts are considered as marks or symptoms where conflicts, contrasts and guidelines emerge for analysis and study under different disciplinary perspectives, articulated in a network that involves literature, visual arts, cinema and the performing arts, anthropology, philosophy and historiography. The aim of the Graduate Program in Literature is to educate professionals for them to become highly qualified in the field of literature in order to meet the demands of various fields of arts and humanities.
In 2012, the Graduate Program in Literature celebrated forty-one years of existence. The course has been, since its inception, rated by the Evaluation Commissions of CAPES with a reputation for excellence. When graduate programs were assessed with letter-grade systems, the Program always received an A score. Subsequently, with number-grade evaluations, it received Score 5.
In 1991, two decades after the creation of the Graduate Program in Literature at a master’s level, and as a result of an internal restructuring process which had initiated in 1988, a second field of research was created in this master’s degree program, namely, Literary Theory, an area accredited by the Graduate Program in Literature, through Technical Report No. 609, dated October 6, 1993. Finally, in 1997, the Doctorate in Literary Theory was launched, thereby creating the Graduate Program in Literature, at the Master’s and Doctorate degree levels. As a result of its history, the Program was then received Score 5 by the Evaluation Committee of CAPES, which continued to be awarded in subsequent evaluations.
Throughout forty-one years of existence the Graduate Program in Literature has successfully educated 501 masters’ and 178 doctoral students. The average length of the master’s and doctoral programs complies with the maximum time length stipulated by the Evaluation Committee of CAPES, i.e., around 24 months (according to the latest available data) for the Master’s and between 47 and 50 months for Doctorate, respectively. Currently, the Program publishes not only the biodata of the authors and the abstracts of their dissertations and theses defended in recent years but also the corresponding full texts, on the official website of UFSC’s Central Library. In any defense of a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, the Program always invites external evaluators (other than professors from UFSC): one for the master’s degree and two for the doctorate, whose participation is usually geared towards academic activities for the faculty and the students.
The Graduate Program in Literature publishes two journals: Travessia and Anuário de Literatura. After 2003, Travessia (with 39 published issues) was restructured and received a new ISSN number and a new title, Outra travessia, and was rated as A2. It succeeded the former journal’s task of being a vehicle for theoretical debate fostered by the program (with 13 issues published so far). Anuário de Literatura, rated as B2, is a journal which focuses mainly on the student body (17 issues). All these publications are available at UFSC’s Portal of Periodicals: http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br
The Program has been making a great effort to formalize the new institutional demands which have emerged in recent years. There was an increase in faculty size, as new professors were hired by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, which undergoes a solid process of expansion. These teachers were accredited in the Graduate Program in Literature and, as a result, there is a wider scope of research carried out in the Program. Thus, while other Brazilian graduate courses in Literature have successfully operationalized the new academic requirements, the Graduate Program in Literature at UFSC was forced to devote special attention to the analysis of internal demands and only then respond appropriately to external demands.
In order to meet its current internal demands, the Graduate Program in Literature introduced a broad process of curricular restructuring in 2011, as well as proposed and approved a new regulation in which new standards were established for accreditation and re-accreditation of professors, in full agreement with the guidelines of the Evaluation Board of CAPES. The research lines and fields of knowledge of the Program were restructured. It should be noted that these changes did not come abruptly, much less arbitrarily or authoritatively. They stem from a slow process of reading and historical and literary rereading in the research work of each former professor of the Program. This was added to the gradual increase in the amount the research by each new professor, thus contributing and expanding the spectrum of the Graduate Program in Literature’s ability to educate professionals. Thus, research and education of researchers and teachers are aimed at educating professionals with new profiles which are suitable for social complexities in order to teach, do high-quality research and work in the various fields of culture. The alumni of the Graduate Program in Literature will thus be taught contents and skills that will allow them to work in the labor market as researchers, culture professionals and teachers who are able to deal with the complexity of the contemporary cultural scene and its symbolic space, where artistic languages require other theoretical developments fostered by previous traditions which, in turn, are not free from the effect of the continuous flow of events. Graduates from the Graduate Program in Literature will continue to produce, in their practices, a strong theoretical intervention, to which different areas of knowledge converge. Therefore, in the process of restructuring research lines, the Graduate Program in Literature sought to encourage its alumni to develop an innovative character for the cultural interventions they produce, strengthened by a creative profile, insofar as their thought was conceived as performance or experience, rather than only as a scholarly articulation of the fields established previously. The issue is not only the addition of knowledge, but the transformation of practices, the metamorphosis of critical intervention. On the one hand, it is a matter of questioning the tradition that exists across fields without, however, changing the theoretical field, but rather reiterating implicit underlying concepts. On the other hand, it is a matter of changing the conceptual space in a discontinuous but consistent way, stepping outside the traditionally crystallized disciplinary field, in order to affirm distrust within it. Alumni should be aware of the risk of being caught by a type of reinstallation that takes them back to what they had wished to be away from. Because of this “inter” and “intra” disciplinary profile, the Graduate Program in Literature will increase interest in graduates from universities located in several regions of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and in Southern Latin America.
The Graduate Program in Literature has an interdisciplinary character, created by the maturation, productivity and expansion of its faculty. Over the last few years, the Program has had students from various disciplinary fields who, however, received interdisciplinary education across the various fields of arts and humanities. Even when the professional alumni from the Graduate Program in Literature return to the fields they had come from originally, they do so with a new profile. It is worth mentioning that the Graduate Program in Literature received students from other areas of the Human Sciences and Arts, such as Anthropology, Philosophy, History, Law, Performing Arts, Cinema, Visual Arts, Music. Professionals in the field of Literature received broad and diversified education, which allowed them to really be able to offer renovated practices to their field.
Staff
The organizational structure of the Graduate Program in Literature consists of a coordinating team formed by the Coordinator and Sub-Coordinator, a Full Collegiate (the highest deliberative body) and a Delegate Collegiate.
Coordinating Team
The Coordinating Team includes the Coordinator and Sub-Coordinator, who are responsible for administrative and academic coordination activities. They preside both the Full Collegiate and the Delegate Collegiate.
The Collegiate
The Collegiate is the highest deliberative body and is composed of the Coordinator, Sub-coordinator, the permanent professors accredited to the Program and the student representatives. It deliberates on the main decisions to be taken in the program, such as new projects, creation of new courses, allocation of resources from development agencies, etc. The members of the Collegiate, as well as the Coordinator and the Sub-Coordinator, are elected among the regular faculty of the Graduate Program in Literature for a three-year term.
Coordinating Team
Coordinator: Prof. Patrícia Peterle
Sub-Coordinator:
Office and Records
Felipe Silva Neves – Chief Secretary
Information on the faculty and the students can be viewed at the end of the menu on the left.
Students’ representatives
The present group of student’s representatives, known as Contragolpe, is currently composed of the following representatives:
Master’s Program
Santiago Gómez
Sérgio Barboza
Eduarda da Silva
Tatiara Pinto
Iran Silveira
Doctorate
Julian Brzozowski
Fields of knowledge
Archive, time and image
Modernity, fragment. Image. Power rating. Art and technical reproducibility. Experience and Poverty. Narration. Optical unconscious. Prosthesis of the eye. Assembly. Image-motion, Image-time. Modes of production of modernity: manufacturing and industry. The look. Sound and silence. Memory. The gambling game. Archive fever and feverish archive. Literature and Event. Anachronisms. Survivals. The interlacing, the non-place, the void. Visible and readable. Expansions, reductions. Approaches, distancing. Nomadism. Music, plastic and literary arts. Cultural studies, cultural industry and literature.
Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies
The feminist critique is approached from the perspective of interpretation of gender and its interrelated systems of representation – sexualities, race, ethnicity, experience, difference, diaspora, post-colonialism, among other conceptual axes, as well as from the divisions that structure discursive, aesthetic, cultural and geopolitical fields. Emphasis on the relationship between gender / subjectivities and power structures, and reflection on their consequences for literature and the role of literary criticism, questions about interpretation, meaning, and politics are rooted in the discussions about feminist theories in their multiple strands.
Poetry and Aisthesis
Modern poetry in its relationship with theory, the idea of poetry and criticism. Poetry and other artistic languages. Questions about the notion and function of poetry; Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. The position of the poet, as a mythical figure in the present text and society; The derivations of this discursive configuration or conception of poetry; Poetry as ability (faculty / politics) or willingness to communicate with readers. The relation between poetry and theory; between poetry and philosophical thought. Poetry and the notion of the contemporary. Giorgio Agamben: Poetry as a language of voice: can voice be a mere support of lyricism? Poetry and metaphor. Kojève and Georges Bataille: Poetry and post-history: traces, remains, evidence, and survivals: wild anomalies. Poetry as memory of language. Poetry as disorder of thought. Romantic Stimmung and modern and contemporary poetry. The poetry and memory of the language. Modern poetry in its relationship with theory, the idea of poetry and criticism. Poetry and other artistic languages. Issues about the notion and task of poetry; Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. The position of the poet, as a mythical figure in the present text and society; the derivations of this discursive configuration or conception of poetry; Poetry as ability (faculty / politics) or willingness to communicate with readers. The relation between poetry and theory; Between poetry and philosophical thought. Poetry and the notion of the contemporary. Giorgio Agamben: Poetry as a language of voice: can voice be a mere support of lyricism? Poetry and metaphor. Kojève and Georges Bataille: Poetry and post history: traces, remains, evidence, and survivals: wild anomalies. Poetry as memory of language. Poetry as a disorder of thought. Romantic Stimmung and modern and contemporary poetry. The poetry and the memory of the language.
Subjectivity, Memory and History
This line of thought intertwines the problems of subjectivity horizontally and vertically, as well as memory and history, and investigates them under multiple aspects and theoretical and analytical perspectives, integrating projects in mutually transversal axes, according to the way of insertion in the central issue of this line of research, namely: how, in the multicultural space where literatures exist, can one politically point out reversals of crystallized processes of the subjective, the memorable and the historical? The thematic axes are listed as follows: A) History as archive, violence in writing history and subjectivation practices. B) Dismantling collections in the cultural field as a possible form of the memorable, or what remains on the horizon of the American and African diasporas, incursions through memory as a critical matter of culture. C) Subject and body as the memorable critic in biographical and autobiographical writings. D) Opening to the vestiges of the desubjectifying experience in the limit of language.
Theory of Modernity
It departs from the definition of modernity, not exactly as a concept, but as a narrative category; it should be noted that it is not possible to speak strictly of a theory of modernity, but of several accounts of modernity. Based on the tradition of Foucault (ontology of ourselves, or archeology of the norm) and Agamben (archeology of the law), the objective is to situate modernity, while biostatic, as the field of study of the processes of contemporary symbolization. These are processes that signal the passage from the organic to the inorganic, from the work to the text and from the action to the inoperative, having as axis the work of the imagination and its devices, which are by definition singular and plural, i.e., omnes et singulatim. This fact is an anautonomic, post-foundational or post-utopian scenario, where there are no longer any (ideal) forms but forces (current). These forces are called images.
Hybrid Textuality
The Hybrid Textuality concentration seeks to associate four perspectives – Literature, Arts, Philosophy, Technology – without establishing a previous hierarchy between them, with the exception of Literature, which is the point on which underpins the relations between all of them. Thus, there are at least three dialogues that mark the possibilities of research of this line: the first is between literature and philosophy; the second, between literature and the arts; the third, finally, between literature and technology. All these dialogues are marked, according to the conception that underpins them, by a reflection on the literary text, a concern already pointed out in the name given to the line. Thus, the first perspective of the projects linked to this line will be centered around studies of text theory, as regards these three relations described above, in its most varied frameworks and approaches.
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Legislation
. Covers all the Graduate Programs of UFSC:
Resolução Normativa 95-CUn-2017
. The Postgraduate Literature Programs exclusive Norms:
. Registration accreditation for teachers:
RESOLUÇÃO-CREDENCIAMENTO-E-RECREDENCIAMENTO-DE-PROFESSORES-AO-PPGL2
. The Postgraduate Literature Program Student Representation Norms:
RESOLUÇÃO-CREDENCIAMENTO-E-RECREDENCIAMENTO-DE-PROFESSORES-AO-PPGL2
Curricular Structure and Sum of Credits
In 2014, the Full Collegiate approved the curricular reform that enforces the new curricular structure of the Graduate Program in Literature. From then on, all subjects taught by teachers should be based on one of the six concentrations – Subjectivity, Memory and History; File, time, image; Hybrid textualities; Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies; Poetry and aisthesis; Theory of modernity – or else those linked to the concentration common to all of them. Importantly, at Postgraduate Literature Program, all subjects – except Stage Teaching Fellows to CAPES DS – are optional.
