General Information
Welcome to Postgraduate Program in Literature (PPGL) at Ufes
The Postgraduate Program in Literature (PPGL) offers high quality postgraduate education and comprehensive research on literature and caters for students from different academic and professional backgrounds (literature teachers, artists, anthropologists, librarians, social communicators, philosophers, historians, musicians, pedagogues, psychoanalysts, psychologists, proof-readers, sociologists, translators, etc.). We support advanced academic research with a progressive interdisciplinary approach while preparing professionals for both secondary and higher education positions.
The Postgraduate Program in Literature at the Federal University of Espírito Santo brings together scholars and writers dedicated to the study of literature and culture in an international and interdisciplinary context. Through a wide range of methods, approaches and topics, the program has offered a master’s degree since 1994 and doctoral and postdoctoral degrees since 2010 and 2012, respectively, aiming to:
Promote advanced research by faculty and the student body;
Provide interfaces between literature and other spheres of knowledge favoring interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary transit;
Train teachers and researchers for higher education, in view of the growing number of undergraduate courses in literature and related areas;
Provide continuing high-level training for language and literature teachers and related areas in the context of secondary education.
With a long history of excellence in postgraduate education, the program has achieved high scoring results in the assessment by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), the Brazilian official accreditation agency for postgraduate programs.
The program caters for students from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds (literature teachers, artists, anthropologists, librarians, social communicators, philosophers, historians, musicians, pedagogues, psychoanalysts, psychologists, proofreaders , sociologists, translators, etc.). We support advanced academic research with a progressive interdisciplinary approach while preparing professionals for both basic and higher education positions.
The broad spectrum of academic opportunities for research and publishing is further supported by three solid Research Centers that the program comprises, namely, Espírito Santo Literature (NEPLES) and Afro-Brazilian Studies (NUCAB), along with outreach programs.
The program is based in -ES, offering the course of MA in Literatures since 1999 e the course of PhD in Literatures since 2010 and has an academic qualification profile certified by CAPES, receiving 5 on its last evaluation.
The program already has 283 masters and 124 doctors and counts with 71 students regularly enrolled, being 24 in the masters and 47 in the doctorate.
