PhD in Literature, Culture and Thought

The PhD in Literature, Culture and Thought supports interdisciplinary projects that by virtue of their design clearly transcend or stand outside any one Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Existing alongside PhD pathways in French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Slavonic Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, this doctoral degree offers an opportunity for students to pursue research projects that at their core traverse conventional disciplinary or linguistic boundaries, but to do so inside the rigorous and supportive environment of MMLL. Our academic community consists of scholars who produce highly specialised research in a variety of literary, intellectual, and cultural traditions, but who also drive such broader fields as critical theory, translation studies, philosophy, visual studies, and intellectual history. Students drawn to this PhD will have projects centred in such fields with relevant proposed supervisors, allowing for research in cultural texts and trends across a wide range of language areas beyond English, at least one of which they will be required to study in the original language.