French

This French PhD programme from
the University of Bristol is committed to research innovation and excellence in major aspects of French studies. The department has an exceptionally wide range of expertise, including the medieval period, early modern period, visual-textual relations, 19th, 20th and 21st-century literature, film and drama, cultural history, politics, and comparative literature.

Throughout the French French  PhD programme from the University of Bristol University of Bristol   each research student is assigned to an academic who works in their proposed area of research or related field, and benefits from the input of a second supervisor who may be from another department, depending on the interdisciplinary nature of the project.

The department is a regional centre for the Group for War and Culture Studies and members of the department are active in a wide range of Faculty of Arts research clusters. A number of our staff are editors of leading journals and active in subject associations. Postgraduate students can benefit from an exchange agreement with the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm), or take an exchange lecturer post at the Université de Bordeaux III.

Career opportunities:

A large number of graduates from this  French programme from University of Bristol develop careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in the field of French studies. Some graduates take up careers in translation or writing for international newspapers, while others will go on to work in libraries and archives, the heritage industries, or publishing.

Courses include:

• Phil: a standalone, one-year (full-time) research degree. Students will undertake their own research project, concluding in the submission of a 25,000-word dissertation. Students may have the option to audit units from our taught master’s programmes if they are relevant to their research.

• PhD: a research project undertaken across four years (full-time, minimum period of study three years), culminating in an 80,000-word thesis. As well as having the option to audit taught units, there may be the potential for PhD students to teach units themselves from their second year of study onwards.