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MPhil/PhD
Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time.
Entry Requirements: An upper second class honours degree, or its
equivalent and a viable research proposal.
Assessment: Combination of coursework and dissertation.
IELTS: 6.5
Funding: AHRC - see also page 196.
Further Information: www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang
You may pursue a topic based entirely within one of the five
languages (French, German, Italian, Hispanic, European), but we are
also interested in projects which are comparative or transcultural in
scope. It is also possible to receive joint supervision by European
Languages and Cultures and another department (such as History,
Linguistics, Philosophy, etc).
Prospective postgraduate students who are undecided about their
eventual area of specialism should consider joining one of the
Modern Literary and Sociocultural Studies
thematic interdisciplinary research fields described below. These are
This field combines studies of individual authors and literatures of
ongoing research programmes to which we are actively recruiting
single national cultures with more wide-ranging transnational
postgraduate students and which correspond to the research
approaches grounded in contemporary sociological and cultural
interests of our academic staff.
theory. Recent work and research interests include:
RESEARCH AREAS
French Studies: 20
th-
century French critical theorist and social
Research in the department spans the period from the Renaissance
commentator Roland Barthes, and a wide-ranging output of books
to the present day. There is a particular concentration of strength in
and articles on the canonical 20
th
-century French writers de
modern European Cultural Studies. As one of the pioneers of inter-
Beauvoir, Gide, Sartre and Vailland, Political Institutions, and
disciplinary studies in language, culture and society, the department
Francophone Africa
continues to be receptive to approaches which transcend or
combine conventional boundaries. Our current research embraces a
German Studies: Editorship of the Cambridge Companion to the
range of thematic fields:
Modern German Novel, research on German-speaking women
writers and on Austrian culture, the critical study and translation of
the diaries of Robert Musil, the comprehensive study of
contemporary German popular culture and its historical origins
Italian Studies: 19
th
/20
th-
century narrative and theatre
Spanish and Catalan Studies: 20
th
-century Spanish and Catalan
narrative and cultural history, Republican exile, Women’s writing,
Catalan politics and identity, and Latin American culture and society
Adina Timofei
The Department also edits the international comparative literature
journal Comparative Critical Studies.
Adina Timofei is a student on the MA in European Institutions
and Policy-Making.
European Studies
“The reason I chose to study at Lancaster was the extraordinary
Research on European intellectual, political and literary history
opportunity it offers to spend 6 months working as an intern in
constitutes a core activity in the department. Staff interests include:
Brussels. I am currently in Brussels and the working
German philosophy; migrant linguists and literary theorists from
environment here is great and I feel that I am gaining
Russia and Eastern Europe; European avant-garde; French
invaluable skills and experience for my future career. The thing
modernism and post-modernism; fascism and totalitarianism;
that I appreciate the most is that I am being treated like a full-
nationalism; genocide; popular culture.
time employee, working on my own project and assuming full
responsibility for my actions and proposed solutions.”
Early Modern Studies
Staff interests include: the application of linguistic theory to
“My MA, however, is not only about the placement and the
Renaissance poetry and theatre, textual criticism, patronage, the
internship. The course has offered me a valuable insight into all
social role of artists and writers, theatre and spectacle.
the main aspects of current EU policy-making which has been
achieved primarily through group discussions as opposed to
Drama and performance
lectures.”
Dramaturgy and production studies are other major research
strengths in the department. Apart from staff with specialist
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