Postgraduate research programmes in German Studies
Manchester is one of the leading research centres for German Studies in the UK. 55% of its research was deemed 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and, in the volume and quality of its research, the Department was rated third out of 29 in the country . Staff research interests range from modern German history, film and cultural studies, to Goethe, Romanticism, and modern German literature. A lively research culture is maintained through regular research seminars and academic conferences. Fresh interdisciplinary research clusters have recently emerged, which are the following : cultural identities, with an organisational focus in the Centre for the Study of Cultural Forms of Modern European Politics; linguistics, with an organisational focus in the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies; and migrations and diaspora, with an organisational focus in Migrations and Diasporas Cultural Studies Network. The massive European Science Foundation programme entitled 'Representations of the Past: the Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe' is also run from Manchester.
German Studies Recent Thesis Titles
- 'GDR Children's Literature as a Reflection of the Conflict between Idealism and Control in Marxist-Leninist Cultural Policy: Franz Fuhmann's Reineke Fuchs and Prometheus'
- 'Sociolinguistic Analysis of Discourses on Style and Stylistics in Germany between 1923-1967'
- 'The Language of the Franks'
Programmes
- German Studies MPhil
- German Studies PhD
- Translation and Intercultural Studies PhD
- Translation and Intercultural Studies MPhil
Further Information
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