Course summary
Our Art History and Visual Studies PhD programme offers the opportunity to conduct in-depth research in an area of particular interest. Our research interests are wide-ranging. Strengths include:
- medieval Italy;
- Italian and Northern Renaissance;
- Renaissance print culture;
- history of architecture;
- art and science;
- British art in the 18th and 19th centuries;
- Romanticism and its reception;
- the history and theory of the avant-garde;
- art and sexuality;
- modernism and post-colonialism;
- art and psychoanalysis;
- poststructuralism;
- history and theory of photography;
- experimental art-writing;
- contemporary Chinese art
- post-conceptual contemporary art
- modern art in India.
Entry requirements
A Bachelors (Honours) degree at 2:1 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a related subject; and a UK Master's degree with an overall average of 65% or higher, with a minimum of 65% in the dissertation and with no mark below 55% (or its international equivalent) in a related subject.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
Fees for entry in 2023 have not yet been set.
Sponsorship information
The School offers a limited number of bursaries and studentships on a competitive basis. Please note that whilst we do not have closing dates for programme applications, all funding competitions have a specified deadline for submitting the funding application form and a separate (earlier) deadline for submitting the online programme application form.
Provider information
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL