German Studies

Entry requirements

• A Bachelors (Honours) degree at 2:1 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a related subject; and
• A UK Master's degree with an overall average of 65% or higher, with a minimum of 65% in the dissertation and with no mark below 55% (or its international equivalent) in a related subject.

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

Our PhD German Studies programme will enable you to undertake a piece of significant and original research under the supervision of our academics.

Our understanding of German Studies is multiple and interdisciplinary, with a particular emphasis on culture and history from 1800 to the present day.

From the cultural history of Imperial Germany to contemporary Turkish-German culture, migration studies and cosmopolitanism, from Culture and Dictatorship, German-Jewish studies and Holocaust film to the history of translation, our research explores the interface between politics, culture and identity in the modern German-speaking world across and beyond its national boundaries.

Recent PhD projects supervised in the department include studies on:

• Early 20th-century German Design
• The Ottoman Armenians in German Literature and Journalism
• Melusine figures in Theodor Fontane
• Space and Time in Kleist and Hoffmann
• Disability in Contemporary German Women's Writing
• Holocaust Education
• Gertrud Kolmar
• Turkish-German Literature and Film
• Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary German Culture
• Architecture and Dictatorship
• Turkish German Cinema
• Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Muslim German Writers