我们的博士课程旨在满足寻求学术职业或其他专业工作的学生以及希望自己寻求智力探索的学生的需求和兴趣。我们的目标是招募即将毕业的毕业生和成熟的学生，他们现在有时间追求知识的热情，也许是在一生的职业生涯之后。我们在德文研究的大多数领域提供监督，包括：巴洛克文学，18至21世纪文学，尤其是小说，英德文化关系，哲学背景下的德文文学，性别研究和女性写作，20世纪德文历史，德文思想史，德文电影和记忆研究。在跨学科研究中也有进行监督的机会，特别欢迎有这种兴趣的候选人。
Our doctoral programme aims to respond to the needs and interests both of students seeking an academic career or other professional employment and of those who wish to pursue a line of intellectual enquiry for its own sake. We aim to recruit both recent graduates and mature students who now have the time to pursue an intellectual enthusiasm, perhaps after a lifetime of professional work. We offer supervision in most areas of German studies, including: baroque literature; eighteenth- to twenty-first-century literature, especially the novel; Anglo-German cultural relations; German literature in philosophical context; gender studies and women's writing; twentieth-century German history; history of German thought; German film and memory studies. There are also opportunities for supervision in interdisciplinary research, and candidates with such interests are especially welcome. An MPhilPhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation. The MPhil thesis is not more than 60,000 words; the PhD thesis is not more than 100,000 words. The thesis requirements for a practice-based project vary according to the nature of the research and can be discussed with the admissions tutors. Both the MPhil and the PhD are assessed by a viva voce examination. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck. Find out more about studying German at Birkbeck.