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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    University of Liverpool

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    NOV

  • Duration

    2 years

Course summary

With literary specialists across the range of eight languages taught in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Liverpool is ideally positioned to provide varied supervision in the areas of Comparative and World Literature. Researchers have played a pioneering role in work on postcolonial and translingual writing, and have contributed actively to major research programmes such as ‘Translating Cultures’ and projects such as ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages’. The Department offers expertise across a range of genres, including the novel, short story, travel writing and graphic fiction, and staff have demonstrated international excellence in emerging areas such as digital media. Supervisors have an interest in canonical literatures as well as in emerging voices, and offer expertise across a range of theoretical approaches.

Tuition fees

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£ 23,400per year

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University information

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University of Liverpool

  • University League Table

    19th

  • Campus address

    University of Liverpool, The Foundation Building, 765 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZX, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    25th out of 96 7

  • Entry standards

    / Max 202
    141 70%

    30th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    73.0 73%

    39th

    21
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.18 80%

    43rd

    39

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