German staff are engaged in cutting-edge research and offer a vibrant and intellectually stimulating environment for postgraduate studies. We have expertise in a number of areas including linguistics, history and politics, literature, business culture, translation studies and film & media studies. Particular areas of focus include:
- Sociolinguistics
- German-Jewish Studies, Yiddish
- Low German
- Foreign language acquisition
- Migration studies
- Anglo-German relations
- Critical discourse analysis
- Popular culture
- Modern German and Austrian literature
- German business environment.
Find out more about our German researchers - All the members of staff are happy to offer PhD supervision in their particular specialisms.
Preliminary enquiries should be addressed to
Prof Gertrud Reershemius, Professor of German Linguistics.