Russian Language and Culture AHRC Doctoral Awards at University of Exeter, UK 2012

The Department of Modern Languages is delighted to be offering excellent funding opportunities for exceptional researchers in the area of Russian Language and Culture studies. We are offering:

• Up to two highly prestigious AHRC Doctoral Awards (open to UK/EU students only): all tuition fees paid for three years. UK students will also receive an annual maintenance grant for three years, which we expect to be £13,590 per year.

Staff in Russian have research interests which lie in the field of Russian literature and cultural history, including cultural relations between the UK and USSR, World War Two in Russian literature, and the role of literary translation in Russian culture. Russian is currently home to a three-year AHRC collaborative research project on changes to the canon of twentieth-century Russian poetry since 1991. 

The Department of Modern Languages is one of the UK’s leading centres for teaching and research in French, German, Hispanic, Italian, Russian, Film, and Sexuality and Gender Studies. Our research covers critical theory, culture, history, linguistics and literature, and we have cross-disciplinary strengths in a number of areas, including Linguistics, Film, the Study of Sexuality and Gender and Translation Studies.  Many staff in Modern Languages currently hold awards from Research Councils and similar funding bodies on subjects ranging from Immigrants’ Italian, German and Austrian exhibitions since 1995 about the National Socialist past, Obscenity in Renaissance France, to costume-drama films of the 1950s.

Further Scholarship Information and Application