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Program Duration

36 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

Modern LanguagesMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Doctorate-level study is an opportunity to make an original, positive contribution to research in German Studies.

German was one of the first European languages to be offered at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1894, our subject area has grown into one of the University’s largest in Modern Languages and a significant centre for research. We support a broad range of cultural and literary research themes, from the medieval period to the present.

In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), our research was submitted in Modern Languages. The results reaffirm Edinburgh’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities - third in the UK based on the quality and breadth of its research in Modern Languages according to Times Higher Education's REF power ratings.

Join our interdisciplinary community and undertake your PhD under the guidance of our experienced and well-published supervisors.

Our research expertise includes:

  • 18th century and Romanticism studies
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • censorship studies
  • contemporary German literature
  • cultural and political studies and literary theory
  • Film Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • identity studies
  • LGBTQI+ representation
  • literature and culture of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era
  • transnational (incl. migration) writing in German
  • palaeography and Medieval textual studies
  • post-Holocaust literature
  • post-war West and East German literary and cultural studies
  • the Medieval German epic
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Translation Studies
  • travel writing
  • Turkish-German literature
  • working-class representation on film and television
Across the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and the wider University, we are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between languages and/or disciplines.

Over the course of your PhD, you will be expected to complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of your supervisors leading to a dissertation of usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words.

You will be awarded your doctorate if your thesis is judged to be of an appropriate standard, and your research makes a definite contribution to knowledge.

Program overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

Doctorate-level study is an opportunity to make an original, positive contribution to research in German Studies.

German was one of the first European languages to be offered at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1894, our subject area has grown into one of the University’s largest in Modern Languages and a significant centre for research. We support a broad range of cultural and literary research themes, from the medieval period to the present.

In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), our research was submitted in Modern Languages. The results reaffirm Edinburgh’s position as one of the UK’s leading research universities - third in the UK based on the quality and breadth of its research in Modern Languages according to Times Higher Education's REF power ratings.

Join our interdisciplinary community and undertake your PhD under the guidance of our experienced and well-published supervisors.

Our research expertise includes:

  • 18th century and Romanticism studies
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • censorship studies
  • contemporary German literature
  • cultural and political studies and literary theory
  • Film Studies
  • Gender Studies
  • identity studies
  • LGBTQI+ representation
  • literature and culture of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era
  • transnational (incl. migration) writing in German
  • palaeography and Medieval textual studies
  • post-Holocaust literature
  • post-war West and East German literary and cultural studies
  • the Medieval German epic
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Translation Studies
  • travel writing
  • Turkish-German literature
  • working-class representation on film and television
Across the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and the wider University, we are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between languages and/or disciplines.

Over the course of your PhD, you will be expected to complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of your supervisors leading to a dissertation of usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words.

You will be awarded your doctorate if your thesis is judged to be of an appropriate standard, and your research makes a definite contribution to knowledge.

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3 Years
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