German Studies

Our PhD German Studies programme will enable you to undertake a piece of significant and original research under the supervision of our academics.

Our understanding of German Studies is multiple and interdisciplinary, with a particular emphasis on culture and history from 1800 to the present day.

From the cultural history of Imperial Germany to contemporary Turkish-German culture, migration studies and cosmopolitanism, from Culture and Dictatorship, German-Jewish studies and Holocaust film to the history of translation, our research explores the interface between politics, culture and identity in the modern German-speaking world across and beyond its national boundaries.

Recent PhD projects supervised in the department include studies on:

- The cultural history of German military music

- Gender and sexuality in contemporary German culture

- Hölderlin and Kant

- Translations of Hegel

- The perception of Europe and the EU in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK

- Early 20th-century German design

- Architecture and dictatorship

- The Ottoman Armenians in German literature and journalism

Find out more about our research in German Studies , our staff and what our current postgraduate research students are working on.