Postgraduate Research
The department has a thriving community of postgraduate students preparing MPhil/PhD theses or taking our MA in French Studies (Research Track) as preparation for doctoral study. We welcome enquiries from prospective research students whose interests match those of academic staff.
Current postgraduate research
Some of the topics our current PhD students are researching are:
- Algerians in Sheffield: creating cultural identity
- The British Library manuscripts of the Roman de Troie
- Figure, space and movement in the works of Valérie Jouve and Jean Echenoz
- Symbolism and the Old French Partonopeus de Blois
- French-Russian writers in the 20th Century: exile and identity
- Comic technique in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon
- Gaps in meaning between spoken and subtitled dialogue in modern French cinema
Recent postgraduate research
Recently completed PhD research projects include:
- A study and partial edition of Froissart's Chronicles Book IV based on BL MS Harley 4379-80 (PhD)
- Ornithology in Seventeenth-Century France: J.B. Faultrier's Traitté Général des Oyseaux (cross-disciplinary PhD with the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences)
- A Study of Aimon de Varennes' Florimont
- The significance of work in the writing of Jean Giono (1929-1945)
- An Edition and Study of Besancon Municipal Library ms 864 (Jean Froissart's Chroniques, Book I, 'A' redaction)
If you are interested in postgraduate research at Sheffield, we suggest that you first explore staff research specialisms, either via the links on the Research Areas page of this section, or via the staff profile pages.
The next step is to make informal contact with a prospective supervisor by phone or e-mail to explore possibilities. Details on funding postgraduate research, and how to make a formal application, can be found on our Prospective Postgraduates page.