French PhD

Program Overview

The French PhD program at the University of Liverpool offers research opportunities in various areas of French literature, culture, and history, including medieval studies, theatre, cinema, and francophone postcolonial studies. Students benefit from excellent research facilities, experienced supervisors, and access to the renowned Sydney Jones Library's collection of French texts. Available full-time or part-time, the program supports researchers with a dedicated doctoral college and a range of research groups and centers.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The French PhD program at the University of Liverpool offers research opportunities in all areas of French literature, culture, and history. This includes Medieval studies, 16th, 17th, and 18th-century studies, French theatre, French cinema, travel literature, francophone postcolonial studies (including French language representations of India), modern and contemporary France, and sociolinguistics.

Teaching:

• Supervision is offered on most areas of French literature, culture, and language.
• The University of Liverpool has excellent research facilities within the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.
• As a postgraduate researcher at the University of Liverpool, you will become part of the Liverpool Doctoral College.
• The LDC supports all postgraduate researchers across the University to thrive in their doctoral program with a dedicated team of esteemed supervisors, professional services staff, and student peers.

Other:

• The program is available both full-time and part-time.
• Recent PhDs submitted and awarded include:
• Family Feuds and the (Re)writing of Universal History: The 'Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes' (1278–84)
• Competing Colonial Discourses in India: French and English Language Representations of the Indian Uprisings (1857–59)
• After the End of Travel: Twentieth-Century French Travel Literatures and Theories
• Victim or Goddess: The Representation of the Indian Woman in Literature in French 1744–1930.
• Research Groups and Centres:
• Migrations and Identities
• Sociolinguistics
• Postcolonialisms
• Histories and Memories

|Course |Duration|UK students|International Students | |:---|:---|:---|:---| |PhD | 2-4 years |£4,786|Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £29,750 (Band A) Faculty of Science and Engineering £29,750 (Band A) or £23,400 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £23,400 (Band B) | |PhD |4-6 years |£2,393|Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £14,900 (Band A) Faculty of Science and Engineering £14,900 (Band A) or £11,700 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £11,700 (Band B) |