PH.D SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN
German at Leeds welcomes applications from well-qualified candidates for Ph.D study from September 2014.
We offer supervision in a range of areas, with a particular focus on German-language literature, film, history, culture, society, and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our particular strengths include gender, queer studies, theatre, border studies, transnationalism, Holocaust Studies, the First World War and its aftermath, crime fiction, Science Fiction and utopian fiction and film, contemporary film, contemporary fiction, world literatures and world cinemas, and literary networks and cultural industries. In particular, we welcome applications with an interdisciplinary focus, reflecting the interdisciplinarity of research currently being done in the department.
Colleagues are currently involved in a range of exciting projects, for example on the transnational circulation of Holocaust memories, the impact of the First World War and women's movements across Europe, the German past and confronting apartheid in South Africa, and the literary aftermath of '68, world cinemas and world literatures. The department has been extremely successful in attracting funding from a range of bodies, including (in recent years) the AHRC, DAAD, British Council, British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation. We also have a significant focus on research-related impact, including, currently, an AHRC-funded project to design an exhibition for use in the Cape Town Holocaust Centre.
We also collaborate with colleagues at our partner White Rose Universities of Sheffield and York. We would welcome expressions of interest from qualified candidates wishing to work with across the White Rose consortium, and co-supervision arrangements may be possible across institutions and across departments (i.e interdisciplinary Ph.Ds, jointly supervised between German and other departments).
The White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities has recently been established across the three universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield, with £19m of funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. (http://www.arts-and-humanities.whiterose.ac.uk/). We welcome applications for Ph.D scholarships through the White Rose College. Study abroad and employability and impact are key components of the package of training and support offered across the College and across the three universities.
In addition, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Leeds offers a range of scholarships. (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20054/german/1048/postgraduate).
For further information on Ph.D supervision related to German-language history, culture, and society, please contact:
Professor Stuart Taberner
School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
University of Leeds,
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Stuart Taberner
Recently published (2013):
Aging and Old-Age Style in Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser
The Mannerism of a Late Period
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Stuart Taberner ¦ Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture and Society
Department of German
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Tel. +44 (0)113 34 33669
Fax. +44 (0)113 34 33517
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