Course options
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Qualification
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
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Location
Aberystwyth University - Penglais Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
3 Years
Course summary
The Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University offers PhD programmes in a wide range of topics. Students undertaking a PhD often spend a considerable part of their research period working from libraries abroad and / or archives, while remaining under supervision from their mentor at Aberystwyth. Areas of research include: French: historical linguistics early modern literature and ideas modern literature cinema Anglo-Norman Romance linguistics history of travel and travel literature 20th- and 21st-century French thought, especially existentialism and feminism (auto-)biography and life-writing and theoretical approaches to reading. German: 20th- and 21st-century German prose autobiographies and life writing women’s writing German-Jewish literature history and culture Holocaust texts and translation German-speaking refugees from National Socialism and especially the Kindertransport postdramatic theatre and translation German grammar and language anxiety new tragic in European theatre and performance. Spanish: stylistic comparison of 19th-century Spanish novels North African comparative colonial literature cosmopolitanism geopolitics landscape science in Latin American literature and film gender, identity and nation cultural legacies of the Falklands/Malvinas conflict avant-garde 20th-century Hispanic poetry women’s cultural practice and language learning and foreign language anxiety.
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University information
Aberystwyth University
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University League Table
56th
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Campus address
Aberystwyth University - Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University, Reception, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FL, United Kingdom
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Subject ranking
66th out of 89 2
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Entry standards
/ Max 207117 56%39th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10063.0 63%65th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.23 81%45th
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