PhD American Studies at University of East Anglia

Programme overview

Our research strategy is driven by a desire to enhance understandings of human cultures and communities, their historic and literary transformations, and by the questions of power and identity that issue from such investigations. We have research groups in American Histories, American Literatures, American Studies and Area Studies. Our expertise is wide with research strengths in the American nineteenth and twentieth centuries, histories of power and protest; space, place, and environment; popular and avant-garde writing; transatlantic and transpacific studies, and interdisciplinary work across cultures, texts and communities.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Department: School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies | Study mode: full-time | Intake: The School of Art, Media and American Studies accepts research students to start on 1 October, 1 February and 1 June. | Location: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Research degree programmes available: PhD Master's by Research (Please note that due to unprecedented demand, international applications are now closed on the Master's by Research course. The course remains open for UK students) Full- and part-time options are available. Read more about each of these on our information pages.

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Application information

Entry requirements

The minimum academic requirement for entry to a doctoral degree is a UK upper second class undergraduate honours degree and a Master's degree, or equivalent. The minimum academic requirement for Master's by Research is a UK upper second class undergraduate honours degree, or equivalent. If English is not your first language or you are from a country that is not on the UKVI list of English speaking countries, you may be required to provide evidence of your proficiency in the English language.

Intake: The School of Art, Media and American Studies accepts research students to start on 1 October, 1 Feb

Apply through the official page: https://www.uea.ac.uk/apply/postgraduate/research

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