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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University Park Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Research overview Could your passion for German language, culture and history help us better understand the world in which we live in today? Follow your intercultural research interests to a deeper level in a department ranked 6th nationally in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. Having completed a masters degree and agreed your research topic with a supervisor, you will continue your research with a German PhD exploring themes from our wide field of specialisms: • Linguistics and medieval studies • History of language teaching • Constructions of national identity from the 18th century to the present day • Myth in German literature from the 18th century to the present day • Romanticism • 19th century narrative • Novels and novellas • Culture and politics in the Weimar Republic • Modernism and Postmodernism • Critical and cultural theory • Gender studies • Memory and exile studies • Postcolonialism and cross-cultural studies • German cinema • Media studies • Autobiography in East Germany • Intellectuals since the Wende • Culture of the New Right in contemporary Germany • Contemporary German historiography Memory, time and temporality in German literature and culture
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