DOCTORAL DEGREE PROGRAMME

Thematic doctoral programme
COINT – Comparative Literature, Intermediality and Transculturality

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Academic degree
Dr. phil.

Regular study duration
3 years (6 terms)

Languages of instruction
German and English

Deadline
Applications are welcome throughout the year.

Courses Founding declaration

SHIFTING THE LENS: Perspectives on Literature, Media, and Culture. A conference for PhD students on in-between spaces, translations, and intermedial perspectives

May 14 to 16, 2025 | University of Klagenfurt

Call for papers
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2025

Profile

COINT – Comparative Literature, Intermediality, and Transculturality – is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme providing participants with robust skills in the fields of Literary Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, and Transcultural Studies. Its aims are to familiarize PhD-students with the current theories, methods, approaches, and concepts in Literary Studies, to ensure a high academic quality of the doctoral thesis, and to offer a strong support infrastructure designed to assure that students successfully complete the PhD within a time span of three years. Offering network opportunities within Austria and other European countries (partner universities?), COINT is aimed at students both from Austria and from abroad. The competences gained during the COINT doctoral programme will allow students to publish research results in international journals and to present and discuss their ongoing research at international conferences, colloquia, or research seminars.

Research fields

Literary Studies and literary and cultural theories
Intermedial aesthetics: the relation of literature to other media
Literary writing processes
Transculturality
Migration, borders, and diasporas
Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
Memory cultures and cultural memory
Humans in the Digital Age and Digital Humanities
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
Literary Mediation and Processes of Understanding
Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality

AUTHORISED SUPERVISORS

Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Cristina Beretta, Department of Slavic Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anke Bosse, Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research / Carinthian Literary Archives
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Angela Fabris, Department of Romance Studies
Uni.-Prof. Dr. Roger Dale Jones, Department of English and American Studies
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Angelika Kemper, Department of German, Section of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Martina Meidl, Department of Romance Studies
Assoc.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Nicola Mitterer, Department of German, Section of Didactics
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Hajnalka Nagy, Department of German, Section of Didactics
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Neymeyr, Department of German, Section of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. René Reinhold Schallegger, Department of English and American Studies
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schober-de Graaf, Department for Cultural Analysis / Division for Visual Culture
Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Peter Svetina, Department of Slavic Studies

Course programme

COINT continuously offers a number of seminars focussing on relevant research methods. It is also possible to have credited other method-oriented courses, pursued at the doctoral level at other institutes of the University of Klagenfurt, international summer or winter schools, or other international educational consortia.

A peer-seminar is offered each summer term.

In order successfully to complete the PhD-programme, students must fulfil the following tasks (at least 24 ECTS-AP):

publish one article or present one paper at an international conference (4-8 ECTS-AP)
participate in seminars focussing on relevant research methods (8-12 ECTS-AP)
participate in one peer-seminar, characterised by interaction, cooperation, and supervision (4-8 ECTS-AP)

Admission requirements & admission procedure

Admission requirements
- Completion of one of the following MA-programmes or Teacher Training-programmes at the MA level:
- English and American Studies / UF Englisch
  
  German Studies / UF Deutsch
  
  Romance Studies / UF French, UF Italian, UF Spanish
  
  Slavic Studies / UF Slovenian, UF Bosnian-Croation, UF Russian
  
  Literature Studies and Comparative Literature Studies
  
  Writing Process Research
  
  Cross Border Studies
  
  Transkulturelle Studien
  
  Visuelle Kultur
  
  Game Studies
  
  Digital Humanities
- Admission to pursue a PhD-programme at the University of Klagenfurt
- Letter of confirmation by the PhD-supervisor
Admission procedure
Applications must include the following documents (in German or English):
- a summary of the PhD project with clear thematic reference to the doctoral programme (maximum 5 pages),
- a letter of confirmation by the PhD-supervisor,
- a current CV (maximum 2 pages) and, if applicable, list of publication,
- certificates and report concerning the MA-thesis or Diploma-thesis.
Decisions will be taken be a selection committee, constituted by the authorised COINT PhD- supervisors.
Requirements to complete to the PhD
- PhD-thesis
- certificates gained during the doctoral programme (at least 24 ECTS-AP)