A Masters by Research (MScR) program is ideal if students have a clear idea of the independent research they wish to undertake at Masters level. One of the University of Edinburgh’s larger Modern Language subject areas, German has earned its place as a significant center for research, supporting a broad range of cultural and literary research themes, from the medieval period to the present.
Join the community and produce a portfolio of assignments totaling 12,000 words, and a 15,000-word dissertation, under the guidance of an experienced and well-published supervisor. Our research expertise includes:
- 18th century and Romanticism studies
- Bertolt Brecht
- Censorship studies
- Contemporary German literature
- Cultural and political studies and literary theory
- Film Studies
- Gender Studies
- Identity studies
- LGBTQI+ representation
- literature and culture of the German/Austrian fin-de-siècle
- literature and culture of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist era
- Migrant literature in German
- Paleography and Medieval textual studies