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Queen Mary University of London: German

Institution Queen Mary University of London View institution profile
Department Languages, Linguistics and Film
Web https://www.qmul.ac.uk/
Email sllf-pg@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone +44 (0)20 7882 8331
Study type Research

Summary

Research areas include: Anglo-German cultural relations, including comparative literature and cultural studies, the comparative history of ideas, the history of British ‘Germanistik’, cultural transfer, linguistic relations, translation theory and travel writing; Jewishness and German culture, including German-Jewish writing, exile and holocaust studies, and the rhetoric of anti-semitism; German, Austrian and Swiss Literature in their social contexts, including Sociability, Spas and Salons; womens writing; gay and lesbian studies; German thought from Lichtenberg to the present, including Goethe and his age; Nietzsche, Freud and the history of psychoanalysis; hermeneutics; the Frankfurt School and queer theory; poetry, poetics and poetologies, including Droste-H, lshoff, Rilke, and Celan; German Literature between 1945 and 1989, especially GDR literature before and after the ‘Wende’, Hubert Fichte and Uwe Johnson; German linguistics, centred on dialectology and sociolinguistics, with a particular interest in contemporary German-speaking societies.

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Queen Mary University of London was established in 1785 and is a leading research-intensive university with a difference – one that opens the doors of opportunity to anyone and supporting students to succeed. 

With schools split across five campuses in central and east London, students are able to select from an exceptionally broad range of subjects across three main faculties, including the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Queen Mary is a member of the Russell Group of universities in the UK, which means the university is committed …

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