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Comparative Literature MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Comparative Literature subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Comparative Literature
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of European Culture and Languages
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD three years full-time or five years part-time.
- Start: September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject (or equivalent) and the appropriate language skills. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Research students need to demonstrate competence in the relevant languages.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
As a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Block Grant Partnership, the School of European Culture and Languages offers AHRC postgraduate studentships in the field of European Culture and Languages (either for a taught MA or for a PhD). The School also offers a limited number of postgraduate scholarships for research students each year; students holding these awards are expected to contribute to their subject area by doing up to six hours of teaching per week. Studentships and scholarships are advertised in January for a September start.
Students applying for a place on any one of the University of Kent at Paris MA programmes may also apply for an award from the Paris Scholarship fund, currently valued at over £5,000. For further information see www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/Paris.html Vacancies exist for language assistants in French, Spanish, Italian and German. These generally involve around ten hours of teaching per week, for which there is an hourly payment, and assistants receive a 50% contribution towards the fees for one of our taught MA programmes. Assistantships are advertised in January for a September start.
The School also provides funds to research students for attendance at conferences, as well as inter-library loans and minor expenses related to research.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see the following web-pages:
View further information about scholarships available in the School of European Culture and Languages.
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Resources and facilities
The Templeman Library has excellent holdings in all our areas of research interest, with particular strengths in modern European literature. The School of European Culture and Languages provides high-quality IT facilities, with state-of-the-art language laboratories, dedicated technical staff and designated areas for postgraduate study.
Language-learning and translation facilities include eight all-purpose teaching rooms, two networked multimedia laboratories and a streamed film library, as well as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction facilities.
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Research areas
Areas of particular research strength within Comparative Literature at Kent include the European avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism, postcolonial literature, literary theory, literature and the visual arts, literature and sexuality, and literature and philosophy. The list below indicates the range of current research interests of members of staff within Comparative Literature and the other disciplines with whom we work closely. Many of these staff are members of the Centre for Modern European Literature. They can supervise postgraduate students for the MA, MPhil or PhD degrees in any of their respective areas of expertise. If you are considering applying to undertake a research degree, we encourage you to contact us to discuss your plans at an early stage of your application.
Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS)
Founded in 2007, the Centre aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic research and teaching. Membership includes not just linguists within SECL but also researchers in classics, philosophy, computing, psychology and anthropology, reflecting the many and varied routes by which individuals come to a love of language and the various disciplines and sub-disciplines of linguistics. Kent provides academic progression in linguistics from undergraduate to graduate levels (taught and research MA, MPhil and PhD) with CLLS offering supervision and support in areas such as syntax, semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and stylistics. We run lectures, symposiums and workshops with experts from Kent and far beyond and have recently held the third of a series of biennial international conferences devoted to Interfaces in Language, with published proceedings.
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|Staff research
Dr Thomas Baldwin: (French) Director of MA in Modern French Studies
19th and 20th-century French literature; Marcel Proust; representations of art in literature; literary theory and philosophy.
Dr Lorenzo Chiesa: (French) Reader
Contemporary Italian critical theory; Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis; 20th-century French philosophy.
Dr Larry Duffy: (French) Lecturer
Nineteenth-century French literature; realism; naturalism; literary representations of science.
Dr James Fowler: (French) Head of French
Novels, drama and other writings of the 18th century; prudes and their relation to libertinage; narratology; psychoanalysis; discourses of the body.
Dr Deborah Holmes: (German) Lecturer
Biography; Austrian literature; Italian literature; Feuilleton journalism.
Dr Ben Hutchinson: (German) Director of MA in Modern German and Comparative Literature; Co-director of Centre for Modern European Literature
Nineteenth- and 20th-century German and European literature, especially Rilke, Sebald, Jean Améry, Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Gedächtniskultur, Kafka, and Thomas Bernhard; 20th-century poetry, modernism, comparative poetics, Frankfurter Schule.
Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll: (Hispanic Studies) Lecturer; Head of Hispanic Studies
Cultural studies; film studies; reception studies; visual culture, in particular art-horror in Spanish visual culture.
Dr Karl Leydecker: (German and Comparative Literature) Dean of Humanities
Divorce in European literature, 18th to 20th centuries; German drama and social history, 1890–1930; Expressionism; Ernst Toller; novelists of the Weimar Republic.
Dr Ana de Medeiros: (French) Senior Lecturer, Director of MA in French and Comparative Literature
Francophone and Lusophone women authors, in particular Marguerite Yourcenar, Assia Djebar and Annie Ernaux; autobiography and postcolonial studies.
Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (Comparative Literature): Lecturer
Modernism, 20th-century Hispanic and Latin American literature; Borges, Cortázar, Joyce; reception studies; medical humanities.
Dr Lucy O'Meara: (French) Lecturer
Literary theory; Roland Barthes; aesthetics; French literary responses to Japan.
Professor Peter Read: (French) Academic Director of the University of Kent, Paris
Nineteenth- and 20th-century French literature and the visual arts; Surrealism.
Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner: (Comparative Literature) Lecturer
Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde literature, art, theory and film; the short story; European and American cinema; modernism and postmodernism.
Dr Axel Stähler: (Comparative Literature) Director of MA in Postcolonial Studies
Jewish literature and culture; early modern European festival culture; the 18th-century novel in Europe; intermediality and ‘iconarratology'; postcolonial literature and theory; contact zones and intercultural communication; fundamentalism and literature.
Professor Shane Weller: (Comparative Literature) Director of Postgraduate Studies in Comparative Literature; Co-director of the Centre for Modern European Literature
European modernism, postmodernism and literary theory; Beckett, Kafka, Blanchot, Celan, Bernhard, Sebald; literature and ethics; literature and philosophy.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Dr Shane Weller
Comparative Literature
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 824716
E: s.j.weller@kent.ac.uk
Centre for English and World Languages
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