1. Developing capacities for achieving and providing specialized knowledge to society within the Anglo-American Studies, History, contemporary social practices field, namely, within the scope of (a) text analysis, (b) critical recognition of the contemporary representations of the past and (c) exercise of rights and duties in society.

2. Development of a political perspective (on the exercise of citizenship rights, in the participation and/or governance languages), as well as the development of an epistemological perspective (necessarily historical, social and political) that critically approaches (a) the use and force to each form of knowledge and, moreover, (b) the search for new forms/languages and heterodoxies, present in its absence or emergence.

Literature and Anglo-American Studies provide us a privileged space to observe voices that have the power to make themselves be heard –  in a world where the hegemonic power has a language, the English language, and/or an ideology turned dominant by many means (from the market to the media, to culture and the art), which has brought us to the last consequences of globalisation. But paradoxically, Literature and Anglo-American Studies also allow us to observe the heterodoxy of the voices that, at the centre of that power (or at the margins, which for us are still part of that centre), did not make themselves be hegemonically heard because, even in English, their languages were and are different – being almost always silenced: women’s voices, exile and emigration voices, voices that cannot be stopped from having other visions of the world, voices that pursuit and demand other visions of the world.

Contemporary cultural History approaches currents of thought, methodological reflection processes, cultural practices and different experiences in the areas of literary productions, figurative arts and multimedia, and mass culture. This area is also oriented towards the historical recognition and the analytical and interpretative approach of the representation processes that, in the contemporary world, aim at bringing about the formulation of models that are alternative to the mainstream models and the participation in change and rupture processes in the field of cultural initiatives and of political projects. Pointing to an objective study of the heterodoxies and silencing acts, for the emergence of a social discourse put on to hide part of the past or, on the other hand, to hold out that process, the conditions for the historical representation and self-representation of minorities, of singular voices and of the ostracized are observed, as well as they forms and places of resistance and alternative.