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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Liverpool Campus
Full Time
Dec 2026
2 Year
Research interests in French Studies cover all areas of French literature, culture and history, including medieval studies, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-century studies, French theatre, French cinema, travel literature, francophone postcolonial studies (including French language representations of India), modern and contemporary France, and sociolinguistics.IntroductionYou are welcome to suggest your own theme for a potential research project. Supervision is offered on most areas of French literature, culture and language. Library resources are excellent in these areas.Research topicsPhDs submitted and awarded recently include:Family Feuds and the (Re)writing of Universal History: The ‘Chronique dite de Baudouin d’Avesnes’ (1278–84)Competing Colonial Discourses in India: French and English Language Representations of the Indian Uprisings (1857–59)After the End of Travel: Twentieth-Century French Travel Literatures and TheoriesVictim or Goddess: The Representation of the Indian Woman in Literature in French 1744–1930.Research cultureResearch groups include:Eighteenth-century worldsMigrations and IdentitiesSociolinguisticsPostcolonialismsBeyond the TextHistories and Memories.
