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The Department of Germanic Languages Literatures during a University of Toronto is now soliciting applications to a Graduate Program in German Literature, Culture, and Theory. The deadline is 16 Jan 2016.
Research areas followed by a expertise camber a Medieval epoch to a 21st-century, with several professors cross-appointed to such units as a Cinema Studies Institute, a Program in Comparative Literature, a Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, a Centre for Medieval Studies, and a Philosophy Department. It is also probable to pursue a thoroughness in Yiddish studies or an interdisciplinary connoisseur grade in partnership with a Book History and Print Culture Program, a Centre for Transnational and Diaspora Studies, a Center for Jewish Studies, or a Women Gender Studies Institute.
Funding:
The dialect has accessible 4 entirely saved PhD slots for Canadians and International students. The appropriation package is guaranteed for 5 years. Students in their sixth year are authorised for a doctoral execution grant. In addition, all students are speedy to request for an array of rival scholarships, including a Ontario Graduate Fellowship, a Doctoral Scholarship of a Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and investigate grants accessible by a DAAD-funded Joint Initiative in German and European Studies dependent with a Munk School of Global Affairs. The dialect is also means to yield appropriation to many students in a one-year M.A. module by a multiple of training opportunities and inner fellowships.
Resources:
The University of Toronto library complement ranks among a tip 3 opposite North America, subsequent to Harvard and Yale. The Greater Toronto Area also boasts a far-reaching array of world-class informative institutions, film festivals such as TIFF, HotDocs, and Images, and an ongoing audience of guest artists, writers, and scholars recruited for lectures and workshops on campus and via a city. The module advantages from serve support and partnership with a German Consulate and a Goethe-Institut Toronto. T.A. training in unfamiliar denunciation pedagogy is supposing by a expertise and by additional workshops frequently hosted with other denunciation and novel departments on campus as good as in partnership with a Goethe-Institut. Funds are also accessible for a connoisseur students to classify conferences in partnership with connoisseur programs in German during other Ontario universities.
Core Faculty
In serve to a core expertise listed below, a associate expertise also accost from disciplines including Art, Drama, History, Music, Religion, and Slavic Languages Literatures.
Angelica Fenner: Film Theory and History, Feminist and Queer Theory, Autobiography, Critical Race Theory, Globalization, Migration, and Postcolonial Studies.
Willi Goetschel: Modern German Literature and Philosophy from a 18th century to a present. Theories of Enlightenment, German Jewish Culture and Thought, Critical Theory.
Michael Hager: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Pedagogy.
Christine Lehleiter: German novel and suspicion from a 18th to a 21st century, novel and a Life Sciences, Gender Studies, Aesthetic Theory, Weimar and Nazi Film, Cross-Cultural Relations (in sold German-Indian Connections).
John Noyes: Literary theory, including Postcolonial Theory, Critical Theory; Colonialism and German culture; a story of sexuality, globalization, mobility and German culture.
Stefan Soldovieri: 20th century German novel and culture, German cinemas, informative studies, censorship, remakes.
Anna Shternshis: Yiddish Literature; Soviet and post-Soviet Culture and Literature; renouned culture; Diaspora studies.
Markus Stock: Medieval German language, literature, and culture; early complicated German novel and culture; theories of space and place; Minnesang.
John Zilcosky: Modern German novel and thought; European Modernisms; psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and vicious theory; exoticism; transport writing; aesthetics and politics; Kafka; Sebald; Goethe.
APPLY NOW: Applications to a Graduate Program in German Literature, Culture and Theory contingency be submitted by a School of Graduate Studies online focus website.
The complete application includes:
– the online form
– submission of transcripts
– two letters of recommendation
– a brief resume
– a sample of written work
– a matter of adult to 700 difference surveying your investigate interests and reasons for embarking on connoisseur study
Please deliberate a School of Graduate Studies Calendar as good as a department’s Graduate Handbook for sum on eligibility criteria. Additional information might be performed from a School of Graduate Studies Admissions Guide. The deadline for online focus and remuneration of a focus price is 16 Jan 2016.
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