MPhil Modern Languages

Newcastle University

MPhil Modern Languages

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 12 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Post-Graduate
  • Education Required Graduate
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 3.3
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
Free GBP 18,600

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2022-12-08
2023-01-10

Program Description

The MPhil and PhD in Modern Languages are research-based programmes. They're offered by the School of Modern Languages. We provide expert supervision in the following areas:
Chinese
  • Ethnicity, identity, Islam and Han settler colonialism, with a focus on Xinjiang, China (Dr Jo Smith Finley)
  • Film, literature, media and representation (Dr Yu, Prof Qian)
  • Modernity and modernisation (Prof Qian)
  • Gender Studies (Dr Smith Finley, Dr Yu)
French
  • Contemporary women's writing (Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)
  • Linguistics (Dr Hall) and in particular French syntax (Prof Mackenzie)
  • Sociolinguistics, language variation, language change (Dr Hall)
  • French and Algerian cinema (Prof Austin, Dr Leahy)
  • 19th to 21st century French and Francophone literature (Prof Harkness, Prof Jordan, Dr El Maizi)
  • Gender studies (Prof Harkness, Dr Henry-Tierney; Prof Jordan; Dr Robson)
  • Cultural Gerontology/Ageing Studies (Prof Jordan)
  • Postcolonial cultures (Prof Austin, Dr El Maizi)
  • Translation (Dr Henry-Tierney)
  • Trauma and culture (Prof Austin, Dr Robson)
  • Visual culture (Prof Jordan, Dr Jein)
  • Urban Humanities: French urban cultures of the modern and contemporary period (Dr Jein)
  • 19th and early 20th-century French labour history, especially the role of women (Dr Salin)
  • Language learning and teaching in higher education (Dr Salin) 
German
  • 20th-century German and Contemporary literature (Dr Ludden; Prof Muller, Prof Malkmus)
  • GDR literature and censorship (Prof Muller)
  • Representations of the Holocaust and/or World War II (Prof Muller)
  • Literature and philosophy - cultural and critical theory (Dr Ludden)
  • Women's writing (Dr Ludden)
  • Morphological theory - morphology, phonology and dialectology of German and Dutch (Dr Fehringer)
  • Environmental humanities and the Anthropocene (Prof Malkmus) 
Japanese
  • Film, literature, media and representation (Dr Hansen, Dr Yoshioka)
  • Popular culture (Dr Hansen, Dr Yoshioka)
  • Gender Studies (Dr Hansen)
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American studies
  • Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American cultural history and popular culture (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Morgan, Dr Oliart, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza)
  • Historical and contemporary discourses of race and identity in Latin America (Dr Oliart, Dr Morgan, Dr Fehimović, Dr Beleza, Prof Hentschke, Dr Borea)
  • Spanish American and Spanish Caribbean Latin American film, literature, and theatre (Dr Page, Dr Fehimović)
  • Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and film (Dr Beleza)
  • History of education in 19th and 20th-century Latin America (Prof Hentschke, Dr Oliart)
  • Youth cultures and social movements, music and politics (Dr Oliart, Dr Beleza)
  • Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American novels (Dr Catalá-Carrasco, Dr Beleza)
  • Political, social, and intellectual history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Brazil and the Southern Cone (Prof Hentschke)
  • Linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Latin America (Dr Cru)
  • Diachronic Spanish syntax, Old Spanish, language change, and quantitative historical linguistics (Prof Mackenzie)
  • Catalan nationalism (Dr Catalá-Carrasco)
  • Film, literature and popular culture of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas (Dr Fehimović)
  • Lusophone environmental Humanities (Dr Beleza)
  • Latin American art, cultural policies, museums and material culture (Dr Borea)
  • Indigenous cultures, Amazon and Andes (Dr Borea)
  • Territory, place-making and cities in Latin America (Dr Borea, Dr Morgan)
Translating and Interpreting
We can offer supervision for projects involving English plus Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.Our research specialisms are:
  • Interpreting (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Dr Wu, Dr Du)
  • Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating (Dr Jin, Dr Lin)
  • Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis in translation and interpreting (Dr Du, Dr Hall)
  • Linguistic diversity and social justice (Dr Du)
  • Translating literature (Prof Jones, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Lin)
  • Translation and culture (Dr Chen, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
  • Translation and ethics, ideology, and power (Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
  • Translation products, processes and strategies (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Prof Jones, Dr Lin)
  • Translator and interpreter training and assessment (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)
  • Reflective/autonomous learning and educational psychology (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)
  • Audiovisual translation studies (Dr Chen, Dr Henry-Tierney)
  • Legal translation and legal and medical interpreting (Dr Du)
  • Migration and multilingualism (Dr Du)
Our Modern Languages research staff works in diverse fields. This ranges from sociocultural, historical and political studies to film and literature, linguistics and sociolinguistics.