French Studies PhD/MLitt/MPhil – (Ph.D.)

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We welcome enrolment directly to the degrees of PhD, MLitt and MPhil. We are generally interested in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary work, and proposals for research of this kind, linked to our specialisms, are warmly encouraged. Research is pursued in its broadest social and intellectual context, and you develop your research project within an active and friendly postgraduate community. You will be invited to deliver work-in-progress presentations at the departmental research seminar and School postgraduate forum. It is possible to arrange joint supervision involving staff from other departments
The University Library has excellent and extensive holdings in French Studies, and there are good facilities for research training, which is an element of all our programmes.

Research interests of staff

* The Algerian War of Independence; the French colonial experience. Contact: Dr Craig Blunt
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5968
Email: c.s.blunt@bham.ac.uk
* Decadence; Revolutionary fiction; 18th- and 20th-century women's writing; drama (Beckett, Koltès); comparative literature (French and English); European and national identities. Contact: Professor Jennifer Birkett
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5981
Email: j.birkett@bham.ac.uk
* French cultural history, especially of the 20th century; the Nouvelle Revue Française and Jean Paulhan; Franco–British cultural relations. Contact: Professor Martyn Cornick
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5965
Email: m.cornick@bham.ac.uk
* Dada and Surrealism in French literature and film, particularly Tristan Tzara, Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard; 20th-century French poetry. Contact: Dr Stephen Forcer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5985
Email: s.m.forcer@bham.ac.uk
* 20th-century prose fiction; discourse analysis; literary stylistics; visual culture (advertising). Contact: Dr Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5969
Email: b.l.y.damamme-gilbert@bham.ac.uk
* Early modern French literature and culture. Contact: Dr Ursula Haskins-Gonthier
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5965
Email: french@bham.ac.uk
* Francophone Caribbean literature and film from Martinique and Guadeloupe and the Antillean diaspora (including the Haitian diaspora in Canada); Francophone colonial and postcolonial studies more generally. Contact: Dr Louise Hardwick
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5964
Email: l.a.hardwick@bham.ac.uk
* French cinema (all periods); 20th-century visual art; literary, critical and feminist theory; Duras; Beckett. Contact: Dr Kate Ince
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5972
Email: k.l.ince@bham.ac.uk
* Inter-war literature and culture; Second World War and literature; Irène Némirovsky; women’s writing; literature and translation; travel writing. Contact: Dr Angela Kershaw
Tel: +44 (0)121 4145974
a.kershaw@bham.ac.uk
* Romance philology and French linguistics; medieval French language and literature; medieval Occitan language and literature. Contact: Emeritus Professor Peter Ricketts
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5979
Email: p.ricketts@bham.ac.uk
* Colonial and postcolonial studies; popular representations of Empire in Britain and in France; European imperialisms in comparative perspective; the decolonisation of European empire; colonial and postcolonial history of francophone Africa, North Africa and the Sahara. Contact: Dr Berny Sèbe
Tel. + 44 (0)121 414 6173
Email: b.c.sebe@bham.ac.uk
* 19th-century literature; Honoré de Balzac; the politics of Balzacian provinciality; contemporary re-imaginings of 19th-century literature. Contact: Dr Andrew Watts
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5965
* 19th- and 20th-century art and literature. Contact: Dr Emma Wagstaff via
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5965
Email: e.r.wagstaff@bham.ac.uk