The International PhD programme in English Literatures, Language and Translation (SELLT), with administrative base at Sapienza University of Rome and partner base at the University of Silesia in Katowicze, is aimed at students interested in the acquisition of up-to-date critical and cognitive tools that enable them to carry out specialised research in the field of English literature and linguistics, as well as in the cultural and disciplinary areas that may refer to them. The PhD is divided into two curricula: a) literary and cultural studies; b) linguistic and translation studies .The main objectives of the PhD are to train skills: (a) in the investigation of the history and periodisation of literature, with the focus on problems relating to the main periods, including the contemporary period b) in the analysis of texts, in the light of critical, stylistic, linguistic methodologies, especially of English-speaking literatures and cultures; c) in the investigation of theories of literature, and in the comparative connection with other literatures; d) in the investigation of linguistic problems, seen both in their communicative abd didactic specificity and in their literary and non-literary values, through the tools of contemporary stylistics and discourse analysis; e) in the investigation of the theories, methods and approaches of Translation and Adaptation Studies, especially updated to the last thirty years; f) in the investigation of the theories, methods and approaches related to the History of the English Language, with particular attention to the studies of historical linguistics and pragmatics. Priority will therefore be given to projects that fall within the following research paths and that refer to the scientific profiles of the lecturers of the Doctoral College (see the Phd website:https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/COLLEGIO-DEI-DOCENTI-STUDI-IN-LETTERATURE,-L...) : 1) Studies on medieval English texts 2) Shakespeare and the Dramatic Language 3) Forms and Subjects of Modern Literary Discourse 4) Theatre Studies in the 21st Century 5) American Studies 6) Post-colonial Literatures 7) Comparative Studies 8) Translation Studies 9) Audiovisual Translation 10) Adaptation Studies 11) Multilingualism and Diatopic Varieties Studies 12) History of the English language 13) Stylistics and historical pragmatics 14) English language teaching Selected candidates for the PhD programme in English Literature, Language Studies and Translation will be included in the joint degree programme with Silesia University in Katowice (Poland) and will have to comply with the partner university's procedures (courses, examinations, study stay, thesis co-tutelle) for obtaining the joint final degree.