European Languages MPhil

Aberystwyth University

The Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University offers an MPhil programme in a wide range of topics. Students undertaking an MPhil 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. The main focus of your research degree will be a detailed dissertation, and you will receive regular supervision from specialists within the Department on its planning, creation and writing. The MPhil normally takes one year of full-time research (two years part-time), after which students complete and submit a dissertation of up to 60,000 words. 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.

Department of Modern Languages