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Comparative Literature Research

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MPhil/PhD

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Part Time, Full Time

Arts & Humanities graduate class
RESEARCH PROFILE
  • RAE results 2008: When measuring work rated as ‘world class’ and ‘internationally excellent’ (4* and 3*), thirteen out of fourteen departments are ranked amongst the top six departments nationwide.
  • Research supervision: Coordinated by the Postgraduate and Research Committee, it links some of the highest-rated literature teaching departments in the country.
  • Current number of academic staff: 15 from different departments in the School.
  • Current research projects:
    • Theory of poetic language;
    • Prison writing;
    • European surrealism;
    • The tradition of melancholy from antiquity to 1800;
    • Legacies of French theory since 1968;
    • Verse translation;
    • Religion and literature;
    • History of the novel since antiquity;
    • Erotic poetics;
    • The concept of literature in the late medieval and early modern periods;
    • The apocalypse in European literature.
  • Partner organisations: ongoing co-operation in research and student exchange takes place between the programme and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (www.unc.edu/depts/english) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Provision for joint PhD supervision exists within the international PhD-Net "Internationalisation of Literature and Science since the Early Modern Period" with the University of Stuttgart.
Student studying