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German Research
|MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with Stuttgart/Sorbonne
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- RAE score (2008): Measured by the leading categories of 4-star research and 3-star research, King’s College’s German Department is ranked first in the UK, with 25% of our research considered ‘world-leading’ and 35% ‘internationally excellent’ in terms of its ‘originality, significance and rigour’.
- Research income: Over £1 million since 2001
- Current number of academic staff: 8
- Current number of research students: 7
- Recent publications: • Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory •The Racehorse of Genius. Literary and Cultural Comparisons • James Joyce • Goethe • Political Economy of Germany • Brecht in Brechtian Film • The German Bestseller in the Nineteenth Century.
- Current research projects: • Current PhD students work mainly in: literary studies, from the Reformation to the present day; film and cinema studies; literary and cultural theory; the history of ideas.
- Joint PhDs available: Exciting opportunities to gain a joint PhD with the University of Stuttgart/Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Erica Carter
Duration
Expected to be: MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT. Research degree registration may begin in September, January or April.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Academia, finance, media, civil service, librarianship, school teaching.
Year of entry 2012
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