| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
February and October |
January to April |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
February and October |
Application period
January to April |
The Gender and Otherness in the Humanities (GOTH) research group engages with various fields, including English Literature, Creative Writing, Music, History, Theatre Studies, Art History and Classical Studies, to explore topics related to themes of gender and otherness.
GOTH hosts critical reading sessions led by members to prompt dialogue around significant texts. We run a major annual interdisciplinary research symposium bringing together international speakers, and regular cross-faculty NetWorkshops with OU colleagues to share findings and best practice. Our monthly GOTH Postgraduate Student Forum is a casual, welcoming online session for PG students across the Arts and Humanities to discuss their work. At least once a year, it meets on campus. We also organise online Drama Festivals, live performance events and research away days to relevant exhibitions, historical sites and other accessible locations, where we learn from each other’s research on site.
We welcome PhD applications corresponding to staff research interests.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
- Gendered approaches to literature and/or drama
- Otherness in literature and/or drama
Current/recent research projects
- Constructions of Jewishness in English Nineteenth-Century Novels and Histories
- Method Writing and the Author’s Voice in the Polyvocal Novel
- Fanny, Mary, Claire: An Uneasy Sisterhood, and Novella-in-Flash: (Dis)Connectivity and the Role of Analogy in the Relationship between the Parts and the Whole
- Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Treatment of Silence
Potential supervisors
- Dr M A Katritzky
- Dr Molly Ziegler
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Please also note that Gender and Otherness is covered by a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, such as English Literature, Creative Writing, Music, History, Theatre Studies..
Fees and funding
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full time: £4,786 per year |
Full time: £12,146 per year |
| Part time: £2,393 per year |
Part time: £6,073 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
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