Many of PhD graduates in Modern Languages and Translation and Interpreting Studies have gone on to academic positions at leading universities in the UK, Europe, USA, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Our graduates have been also successful with receiving prestigious postdoctoral fellowships, including the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The interdisciplinarity nature of PhD programmes in Modern Languages and Cultures and Translation and Interpreting Studies prepares our graduates successfully to apply to a wide range of academic posts. In addition to those in European and Middle Eastern Languages and Translation/Interpreting, our graduates have been appointed to permanent academic positions in Film Studies; History; Journalism and Political Communication; and Sociology. Recent examples include:
Dr Abi Bharat (PhD French Studies), tenure-track assistant professorship, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Ignacio Aguiló (PhD Latin American Studies), lectureship in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester
Dr Ibrahim Alfraih (PhD Middle Eastern Studies), lectureship, King Saud University, Saudi Araba
Dr Liwen Chang (PhD Translation Studies), senior lectureship, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr Chonglong Gu (PhD Translation Studies), lectureship in Translation and Interpreting, the University of Liverpool
Dr Leanne Dawson (PhD German Studies), lectureship in German and Film, the University of Edinburgh
Dr Melanie Foedisch (PhD Translation Studies), lectureship in Translation Studies, the University of Manchester
Dr Eleanor Jones (PhD Portuguese Studies), lectureship in Portuguese and World Literatures, University of Southampton
Dr Sue-Ann Harding (PhD Russian Studies), senior lectureship in Translation and Intercultural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr Emma Heywood (PhD Russian Studies), lectureship in Journalism, Politics and Communication, University of Sheffield
Dr Paulina Henry-Tierney (PhD French Studies), lectureship in French Translation, Newcastle University
Dr Mila Milani (PhD Italian Studies), senior lectureship in Italian Studies, Warwick University
Dr Gozde Naiboglu (PhD German Studies), lectureship in Film Studies, University of Leicester
Dr Bryan Roby (PhD Middle Eastern Studies), assistant professorship at the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Dr Neil Sadler (PhD Translation Studies), lectureship in Translation Studies, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr Elisabeth Schimpfoessl (PhD Russian Studies), lectureship in Sociology, Aston University
Dr Ewa Stanczyk (PhD Polish Studies), lectureship in East European Studies, University of Amsterdam
Dr Joseph Twist (PhD German Studies), lectureship in German Studies, University College Dublin
Dr Denis Volkov (PhD Middle Eastern Studies), associate professorship in Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern history, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Dr Ilya Yablokov (PhD Russian Studies), lectureship in Russian Studies, University of Leeds
Research and communication skills which our PhD programmes help developing also position our graduates to get highly competitive posts outside academia, including in civil service, media and business.
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