Department of European Cultures and Languages
Part of the School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, our Department brings together research and teaching in French and German, and institutionalises long-standing links between these disciplines, for example, in the shared MA European Cultures.
Ours is a community of scholars with shared interests in interdisciplinary topics and transnational phenomena. Our Research Centre, Representations of Kinship and Community (BRRKC), provides an important platform for this exchange.
As language specialists, we provide the opportunity to study theories, texts and historical sources in the original language.
Many of our MA students go on to do a PhD with us, but we encourage students who have not studied with us to get in touch if they are thinking of doing postgraduate work in the following research areas:
