Comparative Literature PhD

University of Liverpool

We’re committed to reading literature in ways that extend beyond single languages and cultures. When you study our Comparative Literature PhD, you’ll benefit from cross-departmental expertise and supervision that spans various language areas and methodologies. With specialists across the range of languages taught in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film, we provide varied supervision in the areas of comparative and world literature so you can undertake groundbreaking research. Our postgraduate researchers have played a pioneering role in work on postcolonial and translingual writing and have contributed to major research programmes and projects, including Translating Cultures and Transnationalising Modern Languages. Collaboration between schools means that postgraduate researchers from the Department of English make a full contribution to our comparative literature pathway, extending the range of comparison to literatures throughout the Anglophone world. This ensures that our students have full access to the Centre for New and International Writing. Additionally, our researchers contribute to the wider field of translation studies and include practicing translators committed to researching multilingually, extending theoretical bases beyond conventional understandings of the field.

University of Liverpool