One of the largest departments of French in the UK, we have 21 full-time lecturers, all of who are research-active and producing high-quality research of international significance.
We can offer PhD/MPhil supervision across an exceptionally wide range of fields, including: literature from the medieval period to the present; contemporary French culture; society and politics; French thought and critical theory; feminist and gender studies; francophone and postcolonial studies; cinema and the visual arts; linguistics and translation studies.
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the department was ranked third in the UK in terms of ‘Research Power’, which takes into account the number and proportion of research-active staff submitted in each unit. The department publishes its own journal, Nottingham French Studies, founded in 1961.
Postgraduate students play an important part in the life of the department. As well as including a number of students who took their first degree in Nottingham, the department’s postgraduate community has included students from the United States, Africa, France, Belgium, and from a number of Universities in the UK.
As well as the courses listed below the department also offers an MA in Modern Languages and Critical Theory.