Dear Colleagues,

I would be grateful if you could draw the PhD
opportunity below to the 
attention of suitable candidates.

Thanks,

Andrew Plowman

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Fully funded Ph.D. studentship in
Cold War Culture and Popular Genre in a Divided
Germany
 at the University of Liverpool, UK

Location:	United Kingdom Grant Deadline:	10-04-2006

The University of Liverpool, UK invites applications
from EU and UK 
students of with a degree level qualification in
German for a 
three-year 
Ph.D. studentship worth £12,000 per annum, plus fees
commencing 
September 
2006. The deadline for applications is 10th April 2006

The field of research of this studentship is Cold-War
culture in the 
Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic
Republic between 
1949-1989. Its focus is to examine the cultural
representation of the 
Cold 
War conflict in popular German-language cultural
texts, films and other 
artefacts produced in Germany between 1949 and 1989.
The successful 
candidate will have an interest in popular genres in
literature, 
television 
and film; however, a candidate's potential as a
researcher is more 
important than prior activity in this field.

Preference will be given to candidates who hold or
expect to receive by 
autumn 2006 an Masters or equivalent qualification and
it is expected 
that 
the candidate will make an application to the AHRC
(guidance will be 
given 
on this).

Contact:
Dr Andrew Plowman
German Section
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool
GB-L69 7ZR UNITED KINGDOM
Email: [log in to unmask]

In the German Section of the School of Cultures,
Languages and Area 
Studies 
there are currently strong staff research interests in
the social 
history 
of and in the popular and literary culture of the FRG
and of the GDR. 
Staff 
and postgraduate interest in Cold War Germany is
currently reflected in 
the 
organisation of a major international conference in
Liverpool ('Two 
Nations, One People? The German Cold-War Experience',
September 2006):

http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/conferences/TwoNations/index.htm

More broadly, the proposed PG studentship complements
research 
undertaken 
in School's 'Visual Cultures' and 'War and Conflict'
research groups: 
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/research/researchgroups/

The project also interfaces with wider interests in
the University 
(such as 
atomic culture in English) and resources such as the
Science Fiction 
collection in the Sydney Jones Library.
The School is also happy to support applications for
Arts and 
Humanities 
Research Council Research Preparation Masters and
Doctoral Studentships 
from suitably qualified and interested candidates.
Members of staff in 
the 
SOCLAS supervise postgraduate work in Catalan, French,
Galician, 
German, 
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Studies. In 2001 the
University made 
submissions to the national Research Assessment
Exercise in respect of 
French, German, Latin American Studies and Iberian
Studies, with the 
result 
that grades of 5A were awarded in French, German and
Latin American 
Studies, whilst a 4A grade was awarded in Iberian
Studies.The School 
has a 
diverse and active postgraduate community of 16 Ph.D.
students and 10 
Masters students.



	

	
		
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