Medieval and Modern Languages

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The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2019). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucasIn the DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages programme, students complete a major piece of original research. Supervision is offered in most fields, covering not only modern and contemporary literature, film and cultural history in each language, but medieval and early modern literature and culture as well.The DPhil programme enables you to acquire the research skills necessary to complete a substantial piece of original research. You will work under the guidance of a supervisor who is a specialist in their subject. In cases where two areas of expertise are essential, joint supervision will be arranged.The faculty groups a large number of research-active staff with an exceptionally wide range of interests. The faculty is therefore able to offer supervision in most fields, covering not only modern and contemporary literature, film and cultural history in each language, but medieval and early modern literature and cultural history as well. Areas of particular strength include:

• Enlightenment studies
• women's writing and gender studies
• life writing
• Walter Benjamin and Modernism
• Dante studies
• the Spanish Golden Age
• Latin American (including Brazilian) studies
• Russian cultural studies.

Please note that the Celtic language options are no longer available for entry in 2018-19.All applicants for research degrees are admitted first as Probationer Research Students (PRS). Full-time DPhil students spend up to four years completing a thesis of not more than 80,000 words. Part-time students spend up to eight years completing their thesis.

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