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Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies

The Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature, and the Arts is a interdisciplinary center for PhD studies in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, Art History, Performance Studies, English, Germanics and Romanics, and Musicology at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the schools of Architecture and Visual Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The Danish Design School. 

The school is located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Copenhagen and is co-funded by the Danish Research Training Council.

The school is an organising member of the following national and international research training networks: 

'Danish Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature, and the Arts', a consortium of The Doctoral School in Arts and Aesthetics, Aarhus, The H.C. Andersen Graduate School, Odense, and Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS), a cooperation between Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, London Consortium, University of Oslo, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Giessen, and Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
ESSCS homepage
European Doctoral Seminar in Culture Criticism and Creativity (CCC), a co-operation between Goldsmiths College, London, Internationales Graduiertenkolleg InterArt / Interart Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies
CCC homepage
A cooperation between the CRÉART doctoral training group at Université de Paris X – Nanterre and the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies.
Purpose of the school is to develop and strengthen the existing research and research training milieu in the mentioned subject areas. In addition, it will stimulate the cultivation of cross-disciplinary research areas, drawing on the competence and experience of those disciplines' scholarly traditions.

The curriculum of the school is organized to support the doctoral students' work on individual projects and to put them in contact with relevant researchers and research spheres. Our main objective is to ensure that the candidates are both solidly anchored in the traditional disciplines and qualified to take advantage of the cross-disciplinary perspectives in contemporary research in the fields of cultural studies, literature and the arts.

The school is advised by a committee including representatives from the Arken Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Subjectivity Research, The Danish Architecture Center/Gammel Dok, The Royal Library, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, The Museum of Decorative Arts, Louisiana, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, By og Byg, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Art.