The Department of German at Leeds welcomes applications for Ph.D. scholarships for September 2018.
German is part of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (LCS) – the largest school of its kind in the UK.
Up to 50 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentships are available through the White Rose College or Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH). If you are interested in one of these highly competitive scholarships, you should contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible for advice. German at Leeds has been extremely successful in this WRoCAH competition.
In order to help candidates with their applications, our internal deadline for WRoCAH applications is January 8th 2018.
A number of University Research Scholarships are available each year through the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures.
We would like to draw particular attention to the two cross-disciplinary Research Scholarships available from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. A number of our current postgraduates work across German Studies and the School of English or the School of History. We very much welcome applications for supervision across schools.
Enquiries about supervision and scholarships may be made to Dr Ingo Cornils ([log in to unmask]).
Information about scholarships in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies is available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125283/research_degrees/2852/research_scholarships_arts_humanities_and_cultures.
German at Leeds offers 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, comparative memory, 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 research currently being done in the department.
We have a growing interest in South Africa, including South African fiction and confrontations with the legacy of apartheid. We have also led a number of impact and public engagement projects in South Africa (see http://transnationalholocaustmemory.org/engagement/), and we have just won AHRC funding to connect our research to issues of development in South Africa, through the Global Challenges Research Fund (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/4681/german_at_leeds_lecturers_win_three_major_uk_government_grants ). We have also been heavily involved in research and public engagement around the centenary of the First World War (https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar/ ).
Currently, colleagues at Leeds are leading on the following major research projects – we would welcome new Ph.D. students to join the postgraduates already attached to these and other projects.
• Legacies of War https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar/ (AHRC; Heritage Lottery Fund)
• Performing the Jewish Archive (AHRC; http://ptja.leeds.ac.uk)
• Cosmopolitan Memory in Literature from Germany and South Africa (British Academy)
• Traumatic Pasts, Cosmopolitanism, and Nation-Building in Contemporary German and South African Literature (Leverhulme Trust)
Translation Studies is an emerging research strength, also building on the School’s expertise in the Centre for Translation Studies. There is also public engagement and impact around translation studies (https://arts.leeds.ac.uk/kriegsgefangen/). The newly founded Centre for World Literatures is co-directed by Professor Stuart Taberner. German cinema is also an established strength, including our ties to the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, led by Professor Paul Cooke.
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