Many members of the CFFCS teach on Birkbeck’s MA/MRes Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern Languages) and the centre is closely linked to the French strand and comparative aspects of the programme.
The CFFCS is also closely associated with the PhD programme in French Studies. We encourage interdisciplinary postgraduate research work within our academic staff members’ areas of expertise:
French and francophone cinema,
nineteenth-century French poetry and novel (especially Baudelaire and Mallarmé),
nineteenth- and twentieth-century French intellectual history,
notions of evil and ethics in French literature and thought,
the public intellectual in France,
Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
contemporary French fiction,
Marcel Proust,
photography in European literature and culture,
eighteenth-century French literature and culture,
text and image studies (especially illustration of c18 French novels),
the topic of sensibility,
the representation of prostitution in eighteenth-century France,
decolonisation,
contemporary history and politics,
contemporary French experimental poetry,
French poststructuralism,
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Please contact us if you are interested in undertaking an MA/MRes or PhD with us.
Candidates in the areas of French, Francophone and Comparative Studies may be eligible for support with funding from the Schools and Departments housing our academic staff members:
School of Arts:
School of Arts Master’s Bursaries and Studentships: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding/arts-ma-bursaries
Funding for Research PhD students: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding