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The Graduate Program in Letters (PPGL) at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), established in 1987 by ordinance 1484/86, was one of the institution's first master's degree programs and first in northern region of Brazil in area of ​​Linguistics and Literature. Our areas of concentration are mixed and combine studies in linguistics and literature. Since 2013, we have been offering master's and doctoral programs. Currently, the PPGL operates in an exclusive four-story building located on the Guamá Campus in Belém, state of Pará. It is the only one with a grade of 6.0 in the northern region in the last four-year evaluation (2017-2020).

The PPGL UFPA currently represents the main reference for Graduate Studies in area of ​​Linguistics and Literature in the Amazon, a vast, heterogeneous region whose borders go beyond Brazilian territory. The region is made up of a plurality of subjects. According to the latest IBGE census (2022), the Brazilian Amazon alone is home to more than 17 million inhabitants, spread across large and small cities, large and small rural properties, riverbanks, indigenous lands, and quilombola remnants. 

Learn about the research project "Literary Cartography of Immigration on Amazon," one of the featured projects in the UFPA Graduate Program in Literature and Literature, which contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This project focuses on analyzing literature linked to the foreign presence in the Amazon, addressing both immigrant authors or descendants of immigrants and writers who, even without a direct connection to immigration, portray in their works cultural influences of different nationalities, such as Japanese, American, English, Portuguese, Jewish, and Syrian Lebanese. The research is based on two main axes: authors whose family origins are linked to migratory flows to the region and those who address, in their works, the impacts and cross-cultural dialogues generated by these presences. The corpus of the study brings together names such as José Benedicto Cohen, Sultana Levy Rosenblatt, Marcos Serruya, Leão Pacífico Esaguy, Mady Benoliel Benzecry, Elias Salgado, Ilko Minev, Myriam Scotti, Rogel Samuel, Márcio Souza, Paulo Jacob, Milton Hatoum, Jorge Tufic, Fusako Tsunoda, among others.

 

 

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link. 

"Doing-with, Doing-others: Prosthetic Formulations of Testimony in Indigenous Literary Production" is one of the featured projects of the UFPA Graduate Program in Literature.

The project's main objective is to investigate the intersections between literature produced by Indigenous authors and expressions of testimony. The proposal is based on the understanding that these works reveal strong relational bonds and address fundamental identity and humanistic issues, reflecting experiences and themes deeply connected to the lives of these individuals.

 

 

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link. 

GeoLinTerm is one of the 2025 featured projects at the PPGL, find out why.

GeoLinTerm (Geosociolinguistics and Socioterminology in Brazil) began in 1996 with the Geo-Sociolinguistic Atlas of Pará (ALIPA) Project, based at the Language Laboratory of the Institute of Letters and Communication at UFPA. GeoLinTerm, in its current configuration, is a Macroproject or Program encompassing five areas of linguistic research: a) ALiPA, which now constitutes one of the research areas, encompassing two products: the Sound Linguistic Atlas of Pará (ALiSPA) and the Sound Lexical Atlas of Pará (ALeSPA), the latter still ongoing; b) the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil – Northern Region (ALiB-Norte); c) the Regional Linguistic Atlases of Northern Brazil (ALiN); d) the Sound Linguistic Atlas of Brazilian Indigenous Languages (ALSLIB); and e) Terminology and Socioterminology in Brazil (SocioTerm).

GeoLinTerm seeks to encompass the most diverse areas of linguistics, although it almost always focuses on what might be called applied linguistics. Thus, work has been developed in various fields, such as terminology, phraseology, geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, language description and documentation, language contact, sign languages, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics (such as the creation of the first sound linguistic atlas in Brazil, ALISPA 1.1, in 2004).

 

 

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link. 

The research project "In Search of Women in Literature: From Illustrious Unknowns to New Editions" by Professor Juliana Maia de Queiroz has been running since 2024 and is highly regarded for its academic achievements.

Her research focuses on the study of women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries who were silenced by literary historiography, but who have been recovered and republished through initiatives by Brazilian editors, publishers, and researchers in recent years.

Many women writers published their poems, novels, and/or opinion pieces in periodicals. Similarly, numerous critical reception texts or book advertisements were published about these women who wrote throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite being erased from official historiography, their writings remained recorded in ink and paper, serving as the basis for our primary source research today.

While previously we had to rely solely on microfilm machines or leaf through worn or inaccessible pages, in recent years, such research has expanded due to the numerous digitized editions available to readers and researchers eager to expand their knowledge of Brazilian women writers throughout the centuries. Our main objective is to read and analyze works written by women in Brazil, specifically new editions by authors who were forgotten in their original editions from the nineteenth century or the first decades of the twentieth century, or even those that never made it into literary history compendiums and have only been reprinted in recent decades.

Thus, this research aims to continue the work with primary sources and the study of literary works erased from the literary canon, work we have undertaken since 2014 at the Federal University of Pará, but now focusing on works by women. We thus seek to contribute to the advancement of current research on women's literary writing in Brazil.

 

 

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link. 

Heritage, Decolonialities, and Citizenship Education is an initiative of the Proexia Emaús program that promotes educational initiatives focused on children's literacy and literacy skills, in addition to offering support to adolescents preparing for the ENEM (National High School Exam). Coordinated by Professors Isabel Cristina França and Welton Lavareda, the project develops activities that articulate knowledge and value cultural heritage, promoting a decolonial perspective on citizenship education.

The initiatives are carried out by scholarship holders affiliated with the Institute of Mathematical and Scientific Education (IEMCI) and the Institute of Letters and Communication (ILC), with the support of volunteers from undergraduate and graduate programs.

 

 

Watch the project presentation video by accessing this link. 

The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and PPGL invite the academic community for the lecture entitled "historical linguistics of the Arawak Family", to be given by Prof. Dr. Fernando Carvalho, the National Museum, which occurs in PPGL, at 16:00, on 6 December.