Course summary
We offer postgraduate research supervision in most areas and epochs of the literatures, cultures and societies of the German-speaking world from the medieval period to the present day, as well as in German history and linguistics. Specialisms include:
- 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
Modules
Before you start your research degree you will have completed a research-preparation masters degree in a related discipline and have agreed your research topic with a main supervisor and co-supervisor. You will work with this team closely for the duration of your study and are welcome to consult any other member of the department whose research seems of relevance to your own work. You are required to attend all departmental research seminars and special lectures and deliver at least one paper of your own each year, usually at the annual Postgraduate Forum or at a work-in-progress seminar. At the end of three years’ full-time registration, plus one year optional writing-up, you will have written a thesis of between 80,000-100,000 words on a topic which makes a significant contribution to research in German studies.
Entry requirements
2:1 (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social science subject – we would usually expect you to hold, or be working towards, a masters degree in a relevant subject
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
More information on fees can be found at: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/fees/postgraduate-fees.aspx
Provider information
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD