PhD in French

The French Section offers PhD supervision in an exceptional range of areas of French and francophone studies. It contains world-leading researchers in the literature, thought, and culture of the Middle Ages, the early modern period, the 19th century, and the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as in cinema and linguistics. There is usually more than one specialist in any given field, which helps to broaden the PhD student s approach to and understanding of his or her topic. There is a dynamic culture of research seminars. At the end of a PhD course, students will have produced a piece of extended original research, of publishable or near-publishable quality.