German
Entry requirements
For full entry requirement details, please see the course page on the University website.
Months of entry
Anytime
Course content
As well as our established strengths in twentieth-century and contemporary German literature and cultural studies, our world-leading researchers offer specialist supervision on German and comparative topics at the forefront of a number of important interdisciplinary fields: cultural sociology, film studies, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and translation studies.
German research interests in MLC focus in depth on the twentieth century and contemporary period from a broad range of cultural, historical and linguistic perspectives. Colleagues in German are actively involved in cross-departmental research groups and contribute to supervision across a wide range of interdisciplinary or multilingual topics.
Colleagues in German are actively involved in cross-departmental research groups and contribute to supervision across a wide range of interdisciplinary or multilingual topics.
Our research interests reflect our research themes:
- Cultural history of the 20th Century
- Contemporary late 20th and 21st-century literature and film
- German sociolinguistics and pedagogy
- Translation Studies.
Research themes
We would particularly welcome proposals for postgraduate study in German in the following areas in which we have substantial expertise:
- Cultural history of the 20th Century: Memory practice and especially musealisation of National Socialism and the GDR; Cultural politics and artistic practice in the German dictatorships; Images and memories of 1968; Periodical culture, especially literary and political magazines
- Contemporary late 20th and 21st-century literature and film, including writing by women and non-native speakers of German; Berlin literature in German and English; Representations of the military in film and literature; Literature of the fantastic and unreal; Autobiography/life-writing
- German sociolinguistics and pedagogy, in particular allochthonous and autochthonous minority languages; Emerging German varieties – multi-ethnic, urban and youth varieties; Language policies and language change; Trends in German language teaching
- Translation studies, especially sociological approaches and literary translation.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- PhD
- full time24-48 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time48-72 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Postgraduate Recruitment
- irro@liverpool.ac.uk