This new MRes programme is specifically targeted at students with one or two modern foreign languages who wish to pursue postgraduate studies in central London. It is exclusively research- and RT-based. Each student effectively has a bespoke degree, since there are no taught courses. It consists of a combination of group-based training and one-to-one supervision for two preparatory essays and a dissertation. We welcome two- or three-language candidates, for whom IGRS is particularly well-equipped to provide supervision, since many of our activities are cross-language, interdisciplinary or comparative. This MRes is a natural pathway into doctoral study.
The supervision will be supplied mainly by staff of the IGRS, who have a broad and attractive range of research interests in contemporary MFL cultures: gender, sexuality and the body; women’s studies; 19c and 20c European thought; 19c and 20c European literature; cultural memory; exile studies and migration; border identities and the city; the imagined city; psychoanalysis; cultural studies; the avant-garde; inter-media studies, including cinema and visual arts. Supervision will alternatively be provided by select teachers from a team of over 40 academics from universities in London and beyond. Their specialism include postcolonial studies, gender studies, comparative literature, art history, city studies, travel-writing, life-writing, philosophy and critical theory. This provides a uniquely rich source of expertise across the interdisciplinary field of modern languages.
The course also takes advantage of the rare opportunities for research training and seminar attendance offered by the Institute and the School, the excellent holdings of Senate House Library in our field and the exceptional holdings in the Germanic Studies library, and the Research Centres for Exile Studies, Contemporary Women's Writing in French and Cultural Memory.
