A study of a child (1898)

Study with us

There are opportunities to engage in Memory Studies at all levels of study.

We particularly welcome expressions of interest from anyone contemplating postgraduate research.

PhD / MPhil

Individual staff are able to offer supervision across the broad range of themes covered by Memory Studies.

Supvision expertise

Explore our member's profiles to see where our expertise fits your research interests.

Courses

The postgraduate prospectus and department pages provide a good overview of what our requirements are and what it is like to study here.

Postgraduate prospectus

Department postgraduate information

Example postgraduate research projects

South Asian American women's fiction: Identity formation and creation of the South Asian American women in the diaspora through memory and nostalgia

Shashi Assella
Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Memory and the politics of gender: East and West German narratives of the Deutsche Wehrmacht in war novels and films of the 1950s

Helen Budd
German Studies

Memorialisation of playwrights in the Soviet Union during the thaw

Jesse Gardiner
Russian and Slavonic Studies

Writing Trauma: Silence in Rwandan Women’s Testimonial Literature

Catherine Gilbert
French and Francophone Studies

After the Expulsions: The Lost German Heimat in Memory, Monuments and Museums

Jenny Graaf
German Studies

Autobiographical Texts of GDR State Officials and Party Functionaries - Aspects of a Leadership Mentality

Ute Hirsekorn
German Studies

Women, political struggle and testimonio

Sophia Mason
Spanish Portuguese and Latin American Studies)

Negotiation of modernity in China: Reconstructing the past on screen

Jing Meng
Culture Film and Media/Critical Theory

(Anti-) Heroism and the Politics of Memory: Wilhelm Raabe’s Historical Novellas

Dagmar Paulus
German Studies

British War Memory as Discourse: The Interrelation of Nationalism and Biopolitics

Stefanie Petschik
Critical Theory

Representations of Memory in Transition: National Socialism in Contemporary (Auto)Biographical Writing in German

Victoria Smith
German Studies

The use of photography in Nabokov's memoir and narrative fiction

Benjamin Taylor
Russian and Slavonic Studies

National mythologies and the remembrance of the past by young people in Russia and Serbia through film

Laura Todd
Russian and Slavonic Studies

Creations of collective memories of the “comfort women” in Japan and the role of international and domestic NGOs

Sachiyo Tsukamoto
History

Be part of a thriving community of doctoral students producing world-class research.

Masters (MRes)

Our MRes degrees can be ends in themselves or used as preparation for a PhD. See individual course profiles for overviews and entry requirements.

Undergraduate

There are a range of undergraduate degrees that offer modules relating to Memory Studies. Explore our undergraduate prospectus for full details.

Undergraduate prospectus

A joint honours degree allows you to combine the studying of two subjects. This means you can:

explore Memory Studies from different perspectives
follow a Memory Studies interest while also exploring something new

Explore the joint honours combinations available