Modern Languages MPhil, PhD - Newcastle Unive

Tuition Fee

USD 25,080

Per year

Start Date

Medium of studying

On campus

Duration

12 months

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Program Details

Degree

PhD

Major

Foreign Language | Linguistics

Area of study

Langauges

Education type

On campus

Timing

Full time

Course Language

English

Tuition Fee

Average International Tuition Fee

USD 25,080

Intakes

Program start date	Application deadline
2023-09-01	-

About Program

Program Overview

Overview

The MPhil and PhD in Modern Languages are research-based programmes. They're offered by the School of Modern Languages. We provide expert supervision in the following areas:

Chinese

Ethnicity, identity, Islam and Han settler colonialism, with a focus on Xinjiang, China (Dr Jo Smith Finley)

Film, literature, media and representation (Dr Yu, Prof Qian)

Modernity and modernisation (Prof Qian)

Gender Studies (Dr Smith Finley, Dr Yu)

French

Contemporary women's writing (Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)

Linguistics (Dr Hall) and in particular French syntax (Prof Mackenzie)

Sociolinguistics, language variation, language change (Dr Hall)

French and Algerian cinema (Prof Austin, Dr Leahy)

19th to 21st century French and Francophone literature (Prof Harkness, Prof Jordan, Dr El Maizi)

Gender studies (Prof Harkness, Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)

Cultural Gerontology/Ageing Studies (Prof Jordan)

Postcolonial cultures (Prof Austin, Dr El Maizi)

Translation (Dr Henry-Tierney)

Trauma and culture (Prof Austin, Dr Robson)

Visual culture (Prof Jordan, Dr Jein)

Urban Humanities: French urban cultures of the modern and contemporary period (Dr Jein)

19th and early 20th-century French labour history, especially the role of women (Dr Salin)

Language learning and teaching in higher education (Dr Salin)

German

20th-century German and Contemporary literature (Dr Ludden; Prof Muller, Prof Malkmus)

GDR literature and censorship (Prof Muller)

Representations of the Holocaust and/or World War II (Prof Muller)

Literature and philosophy - cultural and critical theory (Dr Ludden)

Women's writing (Dr Ludden)

Morphological theory - morphology, phonology and dialectology of German and Dutch (Dr Fehringer)

Environmental humanities and the Anthropocene (Prof Malkmus)

Japanese

Film, literature, media and representation (Dr Hansen, Dr Yoshioka)

Popular culture (Dr Hansen, Dr Yoshioka)

Gender Studies (Dr Hansen)

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies

Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American cultural history and popular culture (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Morgan, Dr Oliart, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza)

Historical and contemporary discourses of race and identity in Latin America (Dr Oliart, Dr Morgan, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza, Prof Hentschke, Dr Borea)

Spanish American and Spanish Caribbean Latin American film, literature, and theatre (Dr Page, Dr Fehimović)

Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and film (Dr Beleza)

History of education in 19th and 20th-century Latin America (Prof Hentschke, Dr Oliart)

Youth cultures and social movements, music and politics (Dr Oliart, Dr Beleza)

Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American novels (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Beleza)

Political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone (Prof Hentschke)

Linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Latin America (Dr Cru)

Diachronic Spanish syntax, Old Spanish, language change, and quantitative historical linguistics (Prof Mackenzie)

Catalan nationalism (Dr Catalá-Carrasco)

Film, literature and popular culture of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas (Dr Fehimović)

Lusophone environmental Humanities (Dr Beleza)

Latin American art, cultural policies, museums and material culture (Dr Borea)

Indigenous cultures, Amazon and Andes (Dr Borea)

Territory, place-making and cities in Latin America (Dr Borea, Dr Morgan)

Translating and Interpreting

We can offer supervision for projects involving English plus Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.

Our research specialisms are:

Interpreting (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Dr Wu, Dr Du)

Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating (Dr Jin, Dr Lin)

Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis in translation and interpreting (Dr Du, Dr Hall)

Linguistic diversity and social justice (Dr Du)

Translating literature (Prof Jones, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Lin)

Translation and culture (Dr Chen, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)

Translation and ethics, ideology, and power (Prof Jones, Dr Lin)

Translation products, processes and strategies (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)

Translator and interpreter training and assessment (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)

Reflective/autonomous learning and educational psychology (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)

Audiovisual translation studies (Dr Chen, Dr Henry-Tierney)

Legal translation and legal and medical interpreting (Dr Du)

Migration and multilingualism (Dr Du)

Our Modern Languages research staff works in diverse fields. This ranges from sociocultural, historical and political studies to film and literature, linguistics and sociolinguistics.

You'll benefit from the School's strong links with interdisciplinary research centres and groups, including:

Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Research Centre in Film and Digital Media

Gender Research Group

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Postcolonial Research Group

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Program Outline

Your development

You may also have the opportunity to attend festivals and conferences with a direct bearing on your course:

Talking to the World Conference

VAMOS festival

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) researcher development programme

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

perform better as a researcher

boost your career prospects

broaden your impact

Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

techniques for effective research

methods for better collaborative working

essential professional standards and requirements

Your researcher development programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

Find out more about the Researcher Education and Development programme

Doctoral training and partnerships

There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.

you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students

they’re often interdisciplinary

your PhD may be funded

Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership

ESRC Northern Ireland/North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership

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Newcastle University is a public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is known for its high-quality research and teaching, and its commitment to social justice and engagement.

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Total programs

573

Average ranking globally

#124

Average ranking in the country

#13

Admission Requirements

Academic entry requirements

A 2:1 honours degree and normally a good master's degree in a subject related to one of the discipline areas covered by the School of Modern Languages.

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