The research
The Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures promotes research in linguistic and literary disciplines (in particular for Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Russian, Spanish and German), welcoming a plurality of interests from which opportunities for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies arise (see point 4), from individual members of the Department (see personal PPDs ), as well as in research projects with competitive calls (they can be consulted in the relevant section of this website).
Alongside these activities, the following initiatives are underway in the Department for the development of research:
The promotion of collaborative and interdisciplinary research took the form of the following three-year departmental projects (2024-2026):
- For an ontology of the discourses reported in literary works (resp. F. Mambrini);
- Texts in dialogue. Permanent Seminar on Literatures: Literary Translation (resp. M. Verna)
- "Mutarsi in altra voce": foreign poetry in the Italian polysystem. For an interliterary study of poetic translation (resp. M. Calusio, D. Vago, M. Verna).
With the aim of promoting the research of young scholars, the following projects have been funded:
- K. Dankova, S. Calvi, Artificial Intelligence and Specialist Translation: Multilingual Analysis for Machine Translation Quality and Revision;
- V. Noseda, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Translation in the Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language.
- M. Lucioni: The Legendary Allegories (1919) and The Melancholy (1945): two "first" translations and the Futurist reception of Jules Laforgue
- S. Fumagalli, Russian poetry in the Italian polysystem: the translations of Buffoni, Fortini, Giudici, Scheiwiller, Poggioli, Matacotta, Resnevič Signorelli.
Scholars of foreign languages and literatures are not intended to be simple users of AI, but also have the (meta)linguistic competence required today to evaluate its performance. It is therefore urgent to transmit this competence to students as a fundamental element of their future professionalism. The Department therefore promotes training and training meetings on the use of AI in the areas of its competence. The following cycle of meetings will take place in 2025:
Exploring new technologies (Chat GPT) for foreign languages, linguistics and literature
supervisor: Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki) https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/kopotev/
- 14 March 2025, 15.30-17.30 (on line:https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/3294400284): Introduction to using ChatGPT in class: ethical and pedagogical challenges.
- 4 April 2025, 15.30-17.30 (on line:https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/3294400284): Found in Translation: The ChatGPT advantage in teaching translation.
- 9 May 2025, 15.30-17.30 in presence (Room 329, via Necchi 9 and online: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/3294400284): ChatGPT speaks: AI in linguistic and literature studies.
The sections of the different disciplinary macro-areas illustrate the research planned for the next three years.