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Comparative Literature Research
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
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.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Javed Majeed
Duration
Expected to be: PhD (initial registration for MPhil), three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus
Student destinations
This is a relatively new research programme, but we expect our students to continue in academia or work in the cultural sector.
Year of entry 2012
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