Research areas and Teachers

RESEARCH AREAS

The PhD in French Studies is organized around two main research areas:

Theoretical and applied French linguistics, and its relationship with other linguistic fields: this includes the study of the French language from the following perspectives—phonetics and phonology; enunciation and pragmatics; morphosyntax and semantics. This line also pays special attention to topics related to paremiology in the French language and/or other Romance languages.
French and comparative literature, and its relationship with related fields: this includes the study of French literature, comparative literature (with particular attention to French literature in relation to other literatures and to French literature in relation to other arts), as well as work on French culture and interculturality, from its origins to the contemporary period.

RESEARCH GROUPS

The faculty members of the PhD Program are either heads or active members of UCM Research Groups officially recognized and positively evaluated by ANECA. For further information, please click on the following link.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

One of the main missions of the DEF-UCM is the training of young researchers through Research Projects. For years, the program has included and continues to include Research Projects funded by national and international institutions, such as the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European Union, among others

TEACHING INNOVATION PROJECTS

Teaching Innovation Project, 2022/2023 Call,
Project No. 380, Humanidades ambientales en las aulas universitarias (ii): en torno a la energía.
Principal Investigator: Pilar Andrade

HIGH-QUALITY RESEARCH

La comédie française by Mª Luisa Guerrero

The “Comédie Française”, founded in 1680, refers to the down of theater buildings in the modern age, those constructions whose tradition is lost after the fall of Western Roman Empire and that reappears wonderfully in the 17th century, as a result of the interaction between scenography, literature and art.