German Studies

Bangor University offers the possibility for students to get a degree in German Studies. The university has a long tradition of excellent postgraduate student support.

Depending on the chosen research area on the German Studies German Studies programme offered at Bangor University Bangor University , students will be assigned one or two supervisors and are guaranteed full access to computing facilities (including translation memory software), library provision and all School resources including the film library.

Key facts

• There is a dedicated postgraduate study area within the School which students are encouraged to use as often as they can.

Research Areas

• Contemporary Austrian literature

• Post-War German poetry

• East German history, society and politics

• Memory in contemporary Germany

• Monuments and memorials in Germany and Austria

• Post-1945 and contemporary German literature and film

• (Generational) narratives of trauma and memory

• Post-war Austrian society and politics

• German Romanticism

• Nineteenth-century women’s writing in Germany

• German/Spanish literary relations (19th century)

• Space, place and identity in contemporary Germany

• Representations of ageing, illness and death

• German critical theory in translation