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The Department of Comparative Literature was established at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, on 29 March 1993 and replaced the department of the same name which had been founded at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” ten years earlier. The department's existence was confirmed in a DR (rectoral decree) of 8 January 1997 when it was included as part of the Humanities sector during an organisational restructuring of the university.
Within the ambit of the disciplinary sectors which form the department (English, French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Scandinavian, Slav), the following research approaches are adopted:
- comparative historical-critical analysis of the cultures, literary-artistic languages and their interconnections at each level of the literary and cultural process (works, production, reception, literary techniques, genres, etc);
- textual philology and analysis;
- historical-critical reconstruction of intercultural realities;
- analysis and history of verse and prose discourse;
- theory and history of national literatures;
- methodology and history of literary criticism;
- theory, history and practice of literary translation;
- synchronic and diachronic language study;
Each disciplinary sector is also committed to organising a wide range of activities (conferences, exhibitions, seminars, multimedia productions, etc).
The mission of the Department of Comparative Literature is to study European literature, art, language, and culture. All disciplinary sectors are analysed within their specific national contexts but also in terms of their many interconnections and their extra-European - especially post-colonial - projections.
The mission of the Department of Comparative Literature lies, in short, in the synchronic and the historical-critical (textual, extra-textual and intermedial) analysis of European literature, art, language, and culture. All disciplinary sectors are studied within their specific national contexts but also in terms of their many complex interconnections, their extra-European projections and connections - especially the post-colonial - in a continuous effort to enrich understanding of the rich and complex realities of European culture.
The research activities serve to consolidate the department's collective identity, to encourage close and lively collaboration among its members, on the basis of a shared scientific and educational commitment.
Our research is the product of a cultural environment informed by a system of ideas which is studied rigorously and in depth. These ideas circulate within the various sectors of the department and among them, as well as through individual and collective contacts.
The department publishes the journal Quaderno del Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate, as an instrument for promoting research carried out by its staff and doctoral students and by external scholars. It is distributed both in Italy and abroad.
The department has had a multimedia laboratory since 1989 and it has always been a state-of-the-art facility, known for its technical equipment and for the competence and professionalism of its staff. It is an essential research tool for professors and doctoral students in their analyses and studies of literary and non-literary texts as well as in the study of intermedial connections and comunications in Europe (the links between literature, art and cinema, oral and written materials, translation studies, high culture and mass media, etc).
The department, finally, has formally collaborated with the National Centre for Research (CNR), with the Ministry for the University (MIUR) and with the European Union.
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