School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
  1. SLLF - School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
  2. Modern Languages and Cultures
  3. Research in the Department
  4. French

Research in French

The London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAPH2) competition, offering up to 90 AHRC-funded studentships is now open

https://www.lahp.ac.uk/apply-for-studentship-2019-20/

Applications for the QMUL Principal's Postgraduate Research Studentships are now open

www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/applying-for-a-phd

Modern French and Francophone literature and its socio-political contexts

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  • Socio-political contextualization of modern French literature
  • Francophone writing
  • Life writing
  • Colonial and postcolonial writing by women
  • OuLiPo

Visual cultures of the French-speaking world

  • Text-image relations
  • The work of contemporary women artists
  • Medieval and early modern visual culture

Theoretical approaches to the literature of the French-speaking world

  • Feminist theory and criticism
  • Narratology
  • Postcolonial perspectives

Cross-cultural approaches to literature in French

  • Modern Francophone writing
  • Pre-modern vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission

Pre-modern literature in French

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  • Late medieval poetry and poetics
  • Relations between French-language and Dutch-language writing in Burgundy
  • Vernacular translation and cross-cultural transmission
  • Approaches to scholarly editing
  • Manuscript studies and book history

Sociolinguistics

  • Language and national identity in France, Quebec and Sweden
  • Language policy and planning
  • Language attitudes
  • Regional languages in France
  • Variation in French
  • Language in the European Union
  • Languages and globalisation

QMUL PhD Funding

How to apply

The LAHP studentship competition is now open

Recent major research grants in French

Oulipography: life as a creative constraint

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship awarded to Anna Kemp for 2017-2018 (£47,521)

The 1429 Catalan Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s `Decameron’: Tracing the Making of a European Classic
European Commission, Marie Curie Actions - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) scheme, awarded to Adrian Armstrong (scientist in charge) and Simone Ventura (researcher), September 2013 - August 2015 (€221,606)

Albert Camus: a Controversial life, a Contested Legacy

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship awarded to Edward Hughes for 2013-2014 (£44,547)

Visual Culture and 'Interruption' in Global Cities
AHRC-NWO Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme Research Grant awarded to Shirley Jordan, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, September 2012-August 2014 (€37,734)

Transcultural Critical Editing: Vernacular Poetry in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1450-1530
AHRC Research Grant awarded to Adrian Armstrong, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, January 2012-July 2016 (£227,036)