German PhD

University of Liverpool

Our world-leading researchers in German Studies have established strengths in twentieth century and contemporary German cultural studies, and also offer specialist supervision on German and comparative topics in significant interdisciplinary fields such as museum studies, film studies, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, world literature, and translation studies. Research in German focuses in depth on the twentieth century and contemporary period from a broad range of cultural, historical and linguistic perspectives. Our staff and PhD students work across a range of areas including: Cultural history of the 20th Century memory practice and especially musealisation of the German Democratic Republic Cityscapes and the built environment act activism city literature and urban narrative forms Contemporary late 20th and 21st-century literature and film, including writing by women and non-native speakers of German representations of the military in film and literature literature of the fantastic and unreal autobiography/life-writing German sociolinguistics and pedagogy, in particular allochthonous and autochthonous minority languages emerging German varieties – multi-ethnic, urban and youth varieties language policies and language change trends in German language teaching Translation studies, especially literary translation.

University of Liverpool