German

German language has been taught at the University of Leeds since the institution formally came into existence in 1904. 

We offer supervision in a range of areas, with a particular focus:

• German-language literature
• film
• history
• culture
• society
• politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Our particular strengths include:

• gender
• queer studies
• theatre
• border studies
• transnationalism
• comparative memory
• Holocaust Studies
• the First World War and its aftermath
• crime fiction
• science fiction and utopian fiction and film
• contemporary film
• contemporary fiction
• world literatures and world cinemas
• literary networks and cultural industries.