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Admissions T: +44 (0)1227 827272 www.kent.ac.uk/pg<br />
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We offer PhD programmes, based<br />
in Canterbury with an optional<br />
year in Paris at the École Normale<br />
Supérieure.<br />
For further information about the<br />
Paris School of Arts and Culture,<br />
please see p257.<br />
Research areas<br />
Staff interests broadly fit<br />
within the parameters of French<br />
literature and thought from the<br />
18th century to the present,<br />
with research clusters organised<br />
around the following areas: the<br />
European Enlightenment and<br />
Counter-Enlightenment;<br />
Ekphrasis; Franco-Sino relations;<br />
life writing; medical humanities;<br />
philosophy and critical theory;<br />
French surrealism; Cubism;<br />
the avant-garde; the interface<br />
between visual arts and text.<br />
Recent publications have focused<br />
on authors, artists and thinkers,<br />
including: Apollinaire; Artaud;<br />
Badiou; Barthes; Blanchot;<br />
Cocteau; Crébillon fils; Deleuze;<br />
Diderot; Djebar; Flaubert;<br />
Foucault; Houellebecq; Lacan;<br />
Maupassant; Mérimée; Nimier;<br />
Proust; Sade; Yourcenar; Zola.<br />
Research centres<br />
Centre for Language and<br />
Linguistics (CLL)<br />
See p118.<br />
Centre for Modern European<br />
Literature<br />
See p72.<br />
Academic staff<br />
For details of individual<br />
staff research interests,<br />
see www.kent.ac.uk/secl/<br />
modern-languages/staff<br />
Dr Tom Baldwin: Reader<br />
in French; Head of Modern<br />
Languages<br />
Dr Larry Duffy: Senior Lecturer<br />
in French<br />
Dr James Fowler: Senior Lecturer<br />
in French<br />
Dr David Hornsby: Senior<br />
Lecturer in French<br />
Dr Lucy O’Meara: Lecturer<br />
in French<br />
Professor Peter Read: Professor<br />
of Modern French Literature and<br />
Visual Arts<br />
Locations<br />
Canterbury and Paris<br />
Entry requirements<br />
Usually, a minimum 2.1<br />
(or equivalent) in a relevant<br />
subject. For specific details,<br />
see www.kent.ac.uk/pg<br />
English language<br />
requirements<br />
See p244<br />
Fees<br />
See www.kent.ac.uk/pg<br />
Funding<br />
www.kent.ac.uk/pgfunding<br />
National ratings<br />
REF 2014, modern<br />
languages and linguistics:<br />
• 100% of our research<br />
judged to be of<br />
international quality<br />
• 3rd for research quality<br />
and research output<br />
• top 20 for research intensity,<br />
research impact and<br />
research power<br />
Applications<br />
Taught programmes<br />
Online at www.kent.ac.uk/<br />
courses/postgrad/apply<br />
Research programmes<br />
See p260 or contact the<br />
School for further details.<br />
Further information<br />
Dr Larry Duffy<br />
T: +44 (0)1227 824411<br />
E: w.l.duffy@kent.ac.uk
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