Course summary
Our Art History and Visual Studies PhD programme offers the opportunity to conduct in-depth research in an area of particular interest. Our research interests are wide-ranging. Strengths include:
- medieval Italy;
- Italian and Northern Renaissance;
- Renaissance print culture;
- history of architecture;
- art and science;
- British art in the 18th and 19th centuries;
- Romanticism and its reception;
- the history and theory of the avant-garde;
- art and sexuality;
- modernism and post-colonialism;
- art and psychoanalysis;
- poststructuralism;
- history and theory of photography;
- experimental art-writing;
- contemporary Chinese art
- post-conceptual contemporary art
- modern art in India.
Entry requirements
A Bachelors (Honours) degree at 2:1 level or above (or its international equivalent) in a related subject; and a UK Master's degree with an overall average of 65% or higher, with a minimum of 65% in the dissertation and with no mark below 55% (or its international equivalent) in a related subject.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
Sponsorship information
The School offers a limited number of bursaries and studentships on a competitive basis. Please note that whilst we do not have closing dates for programme applications, all funding competitions have a specified deadline for submitting the funding application form and a separate (earlier) deadline for submitting the online programme application form.
Provider information
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL