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Italian MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Italian subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Italian
- Location: Canterbury
- School: 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: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject (or equivalent). Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
We can offer supervision on contemporary Italian philosophy and political thought as well as contemporary Italian literature and cultural studies.
We welcome postgraduate students who obtained their first degree in Italy.
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, SECL 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 their course. Assistantships are advertised in January for a September start.
The School also provides funds to research students for attendance at conferences, 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 organised crime and modern Italian literature and culture. In addition, the School of European Culture and Languages provides high-quality facilities in IT, with state-of-the-art language laboratories, dedicated technical staff and designated areas for postgraduate study. Italian television channels can be viewed, and 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. The University of Kent's location is excellent for students who want to visit not only the British Library in London, but also the major libraries and research centres on the continent.
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Research areas
We can supervise postgraduate students for the degrees of MA, MPhil or PhD in any of the areas below, as well as in other main fields of modern Italian studies. We therefore 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 Lorenzo Chiesa: (Critical Theory) Reader in Modern European Thought; Director of Postgraduate Studies
Contemporary Italian criticla theory; Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis; 20th-Century French philosophy.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Dr Tom Behan
School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827944
E: t.h.behan@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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