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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    University of Liverpool

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    DEC

  • Duration

    2 years

Course summary

Research interests in French Studies cover all areas of French literature, culture and history, including Medieval studies, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century studies, French theatre, French cinema, travel literature, francophone postcolonial studies (including French language representations of India), modern and contemporary France, and sociolinguistics.

Overview

Supervision is offered on most areas of French literature, culture and language. Library resources are excellent in these areas. PhDs submitted and awarded recently include:


• Family Feuds and the (Re)writing of Universal History: The 'Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes' (1278–84)


• Competing Colonial Discourses in India: French and English Language Representations of the Indian Uprisings (1857–59)


• After the End of Travel: Twentieth-Century French Travel Literatures and Theories


• Victim or Goddess: The Representation of the Indian Woman in Literature in French 1744–1930.

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

    21st out of 47 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 225
    134 59%

    32nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    78.0 78%

    16th

    5
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.99 75%

    37th

    12

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