Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies

The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies is the only one of its kind in Germany to have been successful in the Excellence Initiative. Thirty outstanding doctoral candidates in various fields of literary study will each receive funding for three years at the school. The school will also admit 15 doctoral students who receive scholarships and grants from other sources.

The research done at the school focuses on an internationally oriented study of literature that involves comparing texts from various language and cultures. By utilizing comparative literary methods, the graduate school reflects a major feature of the literary research that has been successfully performed at Freie Universität Berlin for years: It is characterized by a modern concept of language and literature that permits researchers to grasp the sheer variety of languages, study literary history in the context of a modern history of knowledge and consciousness, and establish a theoretical basis for the study of the poetic fundamentals, genres, styles, and rhetorical strategies used in literature. Instruction is offered by co-teaching teams. A large portion of the curriculum is dedicated to topics with practical applications, with the aim of helping doctoral candidates to prepare for later careers in the fields of research or teaching of literature.

Further information

www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel