The Postgraduate Program in Letters (Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras – PPGL), established in 1988, intends to prepare human resources for research and university teaching, stimulating criticism and high level research skills from a transdisciplinary perspective.
Nowadays, there are six specialties distributed into two different fields of concentration, in Masters and Doctorate degrees, namely:
Language Studies
- Portuguese Language
- Linguistics
Literature Studies
- Brazilian Literature
- Portuguese Literature
- English-language Literature
- Literary Theory and Comparative Literature
The Program has a diversified structure and offers to its students the possibility of developing projects in several lines of research. The Program also has a solid educational performance that brings together diverse research projects, whose production is recognized nationally and internationally.
