PhD Graduate School Practices of Literature (Dr. phil.) at University of Münster

The Graduate School Practices of Literature (GSPoL) at the University of Münster offers a structured doctoral programme for all literary-studies subjects, centred on the relationship between literature or literary studies and society. Doctoral topics are placed in one of three focus areas: literature, culture and society; theory of literary and cultural studies; and literary and cultural studies and practice. Participating subjects include general and comparative literature, English and American studies, Arabic and Islamic studies, German studies, Latin philology, medieval and neo-Latin philology, Dutch, Nordic, Romance (French, Spanish, Italian), Sinology and Slavic studies.

Faculty: Fachbereich 09 Philologie  |  Intake: Winter semester (start 1 October; deadline 31 May) and summer semester (start 1 April; deadline 30 November)  |  Study mode: full-time; doctoral programme (Promotion)  |  Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

The curriculum comprises lectures and lecture series, colloquia, project groups, workshops, internships and academic teaching. Each doctoral researcher has an interdisciplinary supervisory panel of three members, a written supervision agreement and an individual work and time plan.

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