Course Details

The major discipline is Literature, with a resolutely comparative approach based on English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish linguistic realms. However, Crossways also integrates courses in Aesthetics, the History of Ideas, Semiotics, Linguistics and Communication.

Crossways in European Humanities is delivered by the Departments of Languages and Literature of the 7 participating universities: Bergamo, Lisbon, Perpignan, St Andrews, Santiago de Compostela, Sheffield, and Tübingen.

The course modules have been chosen in relation to a common theme - European crossways and cultural hybridisation - each university offering a specific yet complementary or contradictory approach.

Bergamo

At the University of Bergamo, "Cultural Migrations in Literature, Visual Arts and Communication" provides a theoretical and technical approach to the professions of journalism, publishing, archive science and multimedia communication.
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Lisboa

At the University of Lisbon, Literary History and Intercultural Studies explores the history of Portugal's cultural relations with other artistic centres of the Atlantic seaboard.
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Perpignan

At the University of Perpignan, Crossing Territories/ Heterologies explores literary and artistic practices via the confrontational approach of "Hétérologies", the examination of borders and trajectories in Classical, French and Spanish culture, and the discovery of non-binary realities through semiotics.
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St. Andrews

At the University of St Andrews, Cultural Identities offers an integrated, interdisciplinary course on the formation of collective identities (culture areas covered include principally Britain, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy together with Europe and its Others) as decipherable in their cultural manifestations.
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Santiago

The Crossways Programme is part of the Master in Theoretical and Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, in collaboration with various departments in the Philology Faculty, and organized in the heart of the department of Spanish Literature, Literary Theory, and General Linguistics.
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Sheffield

At the University of Sheffield, Texts and Contexts examines literary, discursive and cinematographic texts from the French, Iberian, English, Germanic and Slavonic cultural arenas in their respective socio-historic contexts.
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Tübingen

At the University of Tübingen, (Un)Doing the Social offers courses from the fields of cultural studies, Gender Studies and German, British/American, Slavonic and Skandinavian literary studies to pursue the question of how social differentials like gender, 'race'/class, ethnicity, etc. are installed (and de-installed) by social, cultural and literary practices.
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