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Doctoral Studies programme in German (PhD)
Course Code: 26107 - 978
Duration: At least two years.
Admission requirements: Master of Arts in German or an equivalent qualification
The student undertakes specialised, independent and original research and writes a dissertation, which makes up 100% of the mark. Students select a dissertation topic in consultation with a member of the Department under whose supervision the dissertation will have to be written. The dissertation will be duly examined by at least three examiners and includes an oral defence.
Enquiries: Prof Carlotta von Maltzan
Stipendien
Südafrikanische Studierende können Stipendien vom DAAD, von der Universität Stellenbosch und anderenStiftungen und Organisationen beantragen.
Kontakt: DAAD-Lektor Dr. Michael Märlein oder IC-Büro Johannesburg (daad@wits.ac.za)
Universität Stellenbosch: Postgraduate and International Office and Postgraduate BursaryOffice
(beursnavrae_nagraads@sun.ac.za)
Themen mit Afrika bezug kann auch ein Stipendium der African Doctoral Academy der Stellenbosch University beantragt werden: African Doctoral Academy
Topics
We can supervise topics related to the following areas:
Prof Carlotta von Maltzan:
- Contemporary German literature
- Writing Africa in German literature
- Writing the city in German literature
- GDR and Wende literature (esp. Heiner Müller )
- Gender and writing in German literature (esp. ElfriedeJelinek)
- German exileliterature(esp. Klaus Mannand Lion Feuchtwanger)
- German Jewish and Holocaust literature (esp. Jurek Becker )
- Topographies of culture
Dr Rolf Annas:
- German and Germans in South Africa
- Teaching and learning German as a foreign language (in South Africa)
Dr Isabel dos Santos:
- Suggestopedia in the methodology discussion on foreign language teaching
- Literature in foreign language teaching - from communicative to symbolic competence
- Discourse on Remembrance in German literature (“Erinnerungsliteratur”)
- German Youth literature about Africa
- Fairy Tales in Europe and Africa
- Germany’s classical period in literature
- German Romanticism
- The Habsburg monarchy - myth, history and literature
- German literature from the interwar period with a focus on Joseph Roth
- Contemporary literature discourse in Germany, 1989 to the present