Birkbeck, University of London

COMPARATIVE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, SPANISH) (MRES)

This multidisciplinary, flexible course will give you a thorough grounding in comparative literature and cultural studies in the context of modern languages. It also allows you to explore the cultures of a variety of language-speaking areas: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Brazilian, and Spanish and Latin American. You can take a broadly comparative pathway through the degree or choose to engage with one or more specific language-speaking areas. 

The course brings together a team of renowned academic experts in cultural studies, visual studies, linguistics, comparative literature and cultures, history and thought. We will help you steer a pathway through the programme that reflects your specific interests, career and personal ambitions, and language knowledge. You will be able to choose whether you study texts in the original language(s) or in English translation; if you work in the original language(s) this will be reflected in the final degree title (eg MRes French and Spanish). 

After specialist training in research skills, you will undertake a piece of independent research, culminating in a 30,000-word dissertation. 

If you are interested in pursuing further research, we offer an associated MPhil/PhD Comparative Literature.