项目介绍

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 learning in Japanese and East Asian Studies.

First taught at Edinburgh in 1976, Japanese Studies has developed to encompass a thriving postgraduate research programme covering a wide spectrum of interests in history, politics, and the performing and literary arts.

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

• Japanese performing arts, both traditional (especially Japanese drama of the Tokugawa period), and contemporary
• Japanese/Chinese relations
• media and politics
• the history of Japanese religion (especially Zhenyan or Shingon Buddhism)
• the Meiji period
• traditional and modern Japanese literature
• the Japanese empire

Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, and across the wider University, we are able to support PhD theses crossing boundaries between languages and/or disciplines, including comparative literature, film studies, and translation studies.

Over the course of your PhD, you’ll 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.