The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) at the University of Warwick is pleased to invite applications for doctoral study commencing in September/October 2025.
The SMLC offers its graduate students a vibrant research culture and community, with around 35 students currently enrolled on PhDs in the School, alongside a cohort of taught Master’s students and a number of postdoctoral research fellows.
Postgraduate researchers play a vital role in our research community, together with postdoctoral researchers and academic staff of national and international renown. In the 2021 REF exercise (a national research evaluation) 82% of our research outputs and 100% of our research environment were judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.
Our research expertise ranges from the Early Modern period to the present. We study Modern Languages (French, German, Italian, Iberian languages, and Chinese) in a broad intellectual, global and transcultural context, covering literature; cultural, social and intellectual history; film; politics and society; philosophy; and translation studies.
For preliminary enquiries about a project related specifically to German Studies in a broad sense (literature, film, theatre, history with a strong cultural component, critical social theory, memory studies, German-Jewish history et al.), please get in touch at your earliest convenience with Dr Nicholas Jones (PGGerman@warwick.ac.uk) or, for more general enquiries, with the SMLC’s Director of Graduate Studies, Prof Ingrid de Smet (i.de-smet@warwick.ac.uk).
We encourage applicants to send an academic CV, draft research proposal (up to 2 pages), and indication of which supervisors they might want to work with (if known) by 28 October. This will ensure there is time to identify potential supervisors and to prepare a robust application prior to the final deadlines.
For detailed information about the different funding opportunities and the final application deadlines, please visit the following page: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/postgraduate/fellowships/