UVA’s PhD in German provides advanced interdisciplinary training in German-language literature, intellectual history, media studies, and cultural criticism. With strengths in continental philosophy, modernism, critical theory, and exile literature, the program prepares scholars for academic, editorial, and international careers. Students contribute original research to global German studies through dissertations, translation work, and digital scholarship.
Narratives of exile in German-Jewish modernist literature
Heideggerian thought in postwar ecological writing
Translation and reception of Rilke in Anglophone poetry
Gender, genre, and trauma in post-1989 German fiction
Digital textual analysis of Expressionist manifestos
German critical theory and climate change discourse
Cross-linguistic wordplay in experimental German novels
Cinematic afterlives of the Third Reich in contemporary media
Dialectics of nostalgia in DDR cultural production
Archive-based research on banned 1930s German texts
Narratology in German gothic fiction and its British counterparts
Constructing nationhood through fairy tales and pedagogy
The role of myth in shaping 20th-century German national identity
Text-image hybridity in German avant-garde publications
Advance global understanding of German culture through UVA’s rigorous PhD in German Studies.
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