Faculty of Arts
Postgraduate studies at a glance
Postgraduate studies at the School of European Languages and Literatures allow you to join a team of dedicated world-class scholars. Modern Languages at The University of Auckland were ranked 23rd in the 2011 QS World University Rankings.
You will be mentored by our staff of excellent teachers and researchers and have access to library holdings and specialist research services which are among the very best in Australasia. See more here.
We offer suitably qualified postgraduate students opportunities for tutoring in the undergraduate language and culture courses offered in our School and are committed to creating a stimulating environment for your studies and professional development. Many of our graduates have won awards and gone on to highly successful international careers in academia, research, foreign affairs and trade.
You are encouraged to join one of our thriving Research Centres: the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies, the Pacific French Research Centre, and the Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific. For further information visith our Research Centres.
We particularly welcome new researchers in our areas of excellence: memory studies, film studies, translation studies, feminist theory, gender studies, critical theory, post-colonial cultural studies, trauma studies, detective fiction, popular culture. See below for each department’s specialisations and research strengths. For more information see our Postgraduate Advisers.
Research areas in French:
- Theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics (FLE), psycholinguistics, history of linguistics
- Contemporary French literature
- Medieval literature, feminist readings of medieval romance
- French cinema, French and European vs American cinema
- Translation studies including the translation of Pacific literatures and audiovisual translation (subtitling)
- Feminist, post-colonial, poststructuralist and comparative approaches to Francophone North African and Pacific literatures and their translation
- Post structuralism and deconstruction
Research areas in German:
- German literature, 18th to 21st Century
- German cinema
- German connections with New Zealand and the Pacific
- German-Jewish literature
Read more about research in German.
Research areas in Italian:
- Feminism and gender studies
- Cultural studies and popular culture
- Film studies: contemporary Italian film and female directors
- Italian literature: Middle ages, Renaissance, modern, contemporary
- Renaissance and modern theatre
