Course summary

Having completed a research preparation masters degree and agreed your research topic with a supervisor, you will continue your work exploring themes from our wide range of research expertise:

• Francophone Studies

• Enlightenment and encyclopédie

• Post-war french thoughts

• Migrant writers in Paris

• The 19th century novel

• Contemporary French social theory

• Post-war French society, culture and politics

• Reception of jazz in inter-war France

• Politics and the media

• Political communication

• Gender, ethnicity, politics and the media in France

• 20th century literature

• Travel narratives

• Urban studies

• Nineteenth and 20th century poetry

• Word and image studies

• French feminism under the Third Republic

• French senate

• Interwar French politics and society

• French constitutional history

• 18th century writing

• Feminist and post-structuralist theory

• Theories of hospitality and the gift

• Translation theory

• Translation and philosophy

• Film studies