| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years |
October |
January |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
October |
Application period
January |
The OU’s Literature and Music research group encourages wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of literature and music and fosters a research community in this area within and beyond the university.
The group runs international conferences and associated publications include Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music. 2020 saw the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music, edited by Delia da Sousa Correa.
Members also participate in the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), hosting its international conference in August 2013 and a Round Table in 2020 at the WMA Forum, the early-career and postgraduate branch of the WMA. Our current research group project is a sequence of events on the topic of 'Words, Music and Silence'.
Research group members are engaged in Knowledge Transfer activity including opera projects, educational consultancy for opera companies and study events. They have supervised graduate students for interdisciplinary research degrees and welcome applications in this area.
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.
Current research projects
- The marriage of music and poetry: structure in the twentieth-century English song cycle
- Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text
Potential supervisors
The following Members of the Literature and Music Research Group supervise graduate students for interdisciplinary research degrees.
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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