The Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies was established as part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative. The school offers an environment for the supervision of theoretically and conceptually distinguished dissertations that investigate texts of European, American, Arabic or Asian origin within a historical or inter/transcultural framework.
In 2018 the graduate school will award:
Up to 10 doctoral positions with a duration of three to four years.
Up to 6 project scholarships with a duration of 10 months.