French MLitt

Course withdrawn

This programme has been withdrawn from 2027 entry. This means that we are unable to accept applications for this course.  

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Overview

Join our French MLitt and benefit from expert supervision covering a diverse range of disciplines. Combine your interests and our expertise to achieve your research objectives.

You’ll master advanced research skills through taught and research elements of the programme. These valuable skills can lead to a future PhD or a career in academia and related professions.

MLitts usually have supervisory teams of two or three academics, so you can combine our supervisors’ expertise to fit your project perfectly.  We offer expert supervision in the following research areas:

French cultural studies

• Contemporary women's writing (Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robson)
• French cinema (Prof Austin, Dr Leahy)
• French labour history, especially the role of women (Dr Salin)
• French and Francophone literature (Dr El Maïzi, Dr Scott)
• History and culture, French empire, 19th/20th century, decolonization (Dr Marcus)
• Gender studies (Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robson)
• Language learning and teaching in higher education (Dr Salin)
• Medical and health history, especially in the 19th century (Dr Scott)
• Memory and heritage (Dr Gilbert)
• Performance, dance, and music, especially in the 19th century (Dr Scott)
• Postcolonial cultures (Dr El Maïzi, Dr Gilbert, Dr Marcus)
• Translation- specifically feminist translation; audiovisual translation (subtitling); translation of feminist philosophy; literary translation (Dr Henry-Tierney)
• Trauma and culture (Dr Gilbert, Dr Robson)
• Urban humanities: French urban cultures of the modern and contemporary period (Dr Jein)
• Visual culture (Dr Jein, Dr Scott)

Linguistics

• Anthropological and ethnographic linguistics (Dr Hall)
• History of French and Anglo-Norman (Dr Hall)
• Phonetics and phonology (Dr Hall)
• Sociolinguistics, language variation, language change (Dr Hall)
• Syntax (Prof Mackenzie)

MLitts usually have supervisory teams of two or three academics, so you can combine our supervisors’ expertise to fit your project perfectly. There are linguists in other Sections in the School of Modern Languages too, and they can work on their specialist language, or on their theoretical specialism across languages. 

• Dr Cru: Sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, minority and indigenous language revitalisation in Latin America, speciality in Mexico and Chile, and Spain, speciality in Catalan
• Dr Fehringer: Morphology, syntax, and their interface; and a speciality in German
• Dr Jin: Psycholinguistics in reading, interpreting studies, bilingualism, technology-assisted interpreting training
• Prof Mackenzie: Language change, syntax; and a speciality in Spanish 

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