AHRC PhD Studentships in German Studies at the University of Birmingham (deadline: 12th January 2016)

 

The competition for fully-funded AHRC doctoral awards at the University of Birmingham for entry in October 2016 is now open. Up to 89 fully-funded scholarships will be awarded across the six Universities in the Midlands3Cities consortium.

 

The Midlands3Cities consortium is a Doctoral Training Programme that offers students from the UK and abroad the highest quality PhD supervision, as well as placement and professional development opportunities that will equip them for their future careers.

 

To apply to join the thriving German Studies postgraduate community at the University of Birmingham, please follow the three steps below. The application deadline is 12th January 2016.

 

Step 1  Nominate and contact a prospective supervisor from the list of German Studies staff and their research interests: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/sections/german/staff/index.aspx

 

Step 2  Apply for a place to study at the University of Birmingham via this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/calgs/howtoapply/index.aspx (As part of this step, you must request two academic references.)

 

Step 3  Apply for AHRC funding (deadline: 12th January 2016) via www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/midlands-3-cities/index.aspx

 

Note: To be able to apply for AHRC funding, you must have a University of Birmingham ID number, so please ensure you complete your application for a place to study at the University of Birmingham (Step 2 above) in good time.

 

 

German at Birmingham:

 

German Studies at the University of Birmingham is part of both the Department of Modern Languages, which boasts a postgraduate community of over 150 students, and the Institute for German Studies, a DAAD-funded research institute dedicated to the study of the culture, politics and history of contemporary Germany.

 

Within German Studies, we currently have a number of Master’s students and a total of 12 doctoral students working on a range of topics from medieval literature to contemporary German politics. Our team of nine internationally renowned, full-time researchers offers expertise and supervision in the following areas:

 

·         Medieval German literature

·         Women’s writing

·         Translation studies

·         History of the German language

·         Foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition

·         German culture and history, 1770-1815 - esp. Schiller, Sophie von La Roche, Goethe, Kleist, Lenz)

·         German intellectual history (esp. Nietzsche and Thomas Mann)

·         C20th German literature (esp. inner emigration, Heinrich Böll, Stefan Andres, Paul Schallück)

·         The First World War in German culture and memory

·         The politics of remembering the Nazi past and the Holocaust

·         Cultural history of the GDR (esp. issues of complicity, censorship, and the processes of literary production)

·         Cultural history of political violence in C20th Germany (esp. National Socialism, Terrorism in the 1970s)

·         The politics and practices of remembering the GDR in contemporary Germany

 

 

Please contact prospective supervisors directly via this link or through the postgraduate studies lead in German Studies, Dr Nigel Harris – [log in to unmask]