French Research
PhD
In London
Description
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Type
PhD
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Location
London
Overview
REF rankings 2014: The Modern Languages departments were ranked 9th in the REF's power rankings which take into account the quantity and quality of research activity and performed well in terms of impact with 100% of their research rated as having an outstanding (4*) or considerable reach and significance.
Current number of academic staff: 15 permanent (all research active).
Current number of students: 19.
Recent publications:
Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde: Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
The Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France
Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange
The Calendar in Revolutionary France - Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics
Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul
Current research projects:
Casts, Imprints and Traces in Modern and Contemporary Art
Medieval Francophone Literary Culture outside France
Deviant Speech in the Early Modern Period
Algerian women's writing
Horace in the Eighteenth Century
World History as World Court: The Theatrical Origin of Human Rights
The Cinematographic Imaginary in Proust
Queer Theory
The Politics of Racism in France
Colonial Education
Québécois film
Post-1968 French feminist film
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Subjects
- Politics
- Staff
- Writing
Course programme
Our department offers research strengths in all periods of French literature, modern French history and politics, Francophone literature and French thought. There are several active research seminars and reading groups in which staff and research students participate.
We provide formal, subject-specific training and individual guidance on research methods, writing research proposals, applying for funding and presenting research papers.
Current students are working on topics across the whole range of French literary studies, and many of our recent PhD graduates have gone on successfully to academic posts or postdoctoral fellowships.
French Research