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2022年8月17日

Doctorate-level study is an opportunity to expand upon your interests and expertise in a community that really values research; and to make an original, positive contribution to Comparative Literature.

As the first UNESCO World City of Literature, and a major cultural hub, Edinburgh is the ideal place to study literary works of different linguistic and cultural systems, and to explore the relationship between literature and the other arts. In the course of your research, you will look comparatively at one or more literary themes, genres or historical periods.

Our programme draws on the expertise of staff from across the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). Literature has been taught here for over 250 years and we offer one of the widest variety of languages of any UK university, particularly within European Languages and Cultures which comprises:

• French and Francophone Studies
• German
• Italian
• Russian Studies
• Scandinavian Studies (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish)
• Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Hispanic Studies)

Join our community and undertake a specialised research project under the guidance of experienced and well-published supervisors. We have particular strengths in:

• European and world literature
• Intermediality

Working with colleagues elsewhere in LLC, and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between languages and/or disciplines, including film and theatre studies.

Over the course of your PhD, you will be expected to complete an original body of work under the expert guidance of your supervisors leading to a dissertation of usually between 80,000 and 100,000 words.

You will be awarded your doctorate if your thesis is judged to be of an appropriate standard, and your research makes a definite contribution to knowledge.

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