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German Literature MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the German subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: German
- 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 registration three to four years full-time or five to six 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
As well as the two MA programmes, we also offer supervision towards an M.Phil and/or PhD in German (on either a full- or a part-time basis). In particular, we can offer co-supervision with leading German universities, allowing PhD candidates to spend a year in Germany as part of their progamme of research.
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.
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; assistants also 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 for research students to attend conferences, as well as for inter-library loans and minor expenses related to research.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
Also 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 multi-media laboratories, and a streamed film library as well as satellite TV channels offering self-instruction facilities. The University of Kent's location is the best in Britain for students who need to visit not only the British Library (London) but also the major libraries and research centres on the continent. In particular, we have close links with the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach and are involved in running the first-ever graduate school for UK postgraduates in Marbach.
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Research areas
Staff research interests in German include: the age of Goethe; Austrian Studies; German linguistics; modernism and 20th-century literature, especially Rilke, Kafka, Mann, Hesse, Grass, W G Sebald and Jean Améry. Other areas of specialism within the School include: Beckett; Proust; the European avant-garde; modernism and postmodernism; cross-cultural transmission; translation theory; literary theory and aesthetics; Jewish writing; and literature and fundamentalism. The list below indicates the range of current staff research interests. We can supervise postgraduate students for the degrees of MPhil or PhD in any of these areas, as well as in other main fields of German and European literature. 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 Deborah Holmes: (German) Lecturer
Biography; Austrian literature; Italian literature; Feuilleton journalism.
Dr Ben Hutchinson: (German) Head of German; Director of MA in Modern German and Comparative Literature; Co-director of Centre for Modern European Literature; Director of the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH)
Nineteenth- and 20th-century German and European literature, especially Rilke, W.G. Sebald, Jean Améry, Vergangenheitsbewältigung and Gedächtniskultur; 20th-century poetry, modernism, symbolism, comparative poetics, Frankfurter Schule.
Professor 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 John Partridge: (German) Lecturer in German and Linguistics; Director of Centre for Language and Linguistics Studies
German language and linguistics, especially pragmatics, syntax; German-English comparative linguistics and sociolinguistics; the teaching of German grammar by markedness criteria; translation; technology in language teaching.
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) Senior Lecturer
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
European modernism, postmodernism and literary theory; literature and ethics; literature and philosophy.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Dr Ben Hutchinson
German Literature School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 823077
E: b.hutchinson@kent.ac.uk
Centre for English and World Languages
T: +44 (0)1227 824069
E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas
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