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German Research
|MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with Stuttgart/Sorbonne or Humboldt University
|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 top in London, second in the UK, with 25 per cent of our research considered ‘world-leading’ and 35 per cent ‘internationally excellent’ in terms of its ‘originality, significance and rigour’.
- Research income: Over £1m since 2001.
- Current number of academic staff: 12.
- Current number of research students: 11.
- 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;
- Private Lives and Collective Destinies: Class, Nation and the Volk in Gustav Freytag;
- Crisis and Form in the Later Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann;
- Bridal Quest Epics in Medieval Germany.
- Current research projects: Current PhD students work mainly in: literary studies, 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)/Humboldt University Berlin.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Erica Carter
Awarding institution
King's College London/King's and Stuttgart/Sorbonne or Humboldt for joint programme
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.
Year of entry 2013
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