The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of
Manchester expects to offer a maximum of 4 AHRC awards in the
following discipline areas: French Studies/German Studies/Italian
Studies/Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies/Linguistics and
English Language for a PhD starting in September 2011. The awards will
cover full-time fees and maintenance for three years. Furthermore, the
School will offer a variety of internal funding opportunities for
outstanding PhD candidates. For further details please see our funding
page at
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/
The Italian Department at Manchester is one of the largest Italian
Departments in the UK with six research active members of staff and a
substantial postgraduate community. Members of staff in Italian at
Manchester engage in truly interdisciplinary research and are willing
to supervise on a wide variety of topics in the fields of cultural
history, linguistics, literature, history of the book, visual culture,
Renaissance culture, cinema studies, history and Dante studies.
Interdisciplinary and transnational projects are welcome, since
co-supervisions can be arranged across one of the largest School of
Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the UK
(http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/). Co-supervisions with
colleagues in History, English, Media studies and Art History are also
possible.
For more details about the Department and its research culture, please
visit our website: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/italian/.
For more details about postgraduate studies in the School, please
visit: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/. For general and
specific queries related to application procedure or proposals, please
email Dr Francesca Billiani at
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possible.
Francesca Billiani
Dr Francesca Billiani
Senior Lecturer in Italian
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester
Oxford Road
M13 9PL, Manchester
0044 0161 2758120
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