54 Full-time PhD programmes in French Studies

On French Studies programmes at the University of Reading, they offer expert supervision in a wide range of areas.

Expand your knowledge of French culture, society, and literature, and take your fluency in the PhD in French language to the next level at Victoria University of Wellington. 

The Department of French is committed to research innovation and excellence in major aspects of French Studies. University of Bristol offers the French programme. 

Dalhousie University's Doctor of Philosophy in French programme offers you the opportunity to specialize in French literature, linguistics or francophone culture. A PhD degree opens the doors toward careers in universities and research centres nationally and internationally, and in information technologies and communications.  

Do you want to be part of a stimulating research environment? Join the French Studies programme at University of Birmingham.

Kent offers an excellent environment for postgraduate study in French literature, thought, culture, society and the visual arts from the 18th century to the present.

Our PhD French Studies programme at The University of Manchester will enable you to carry out a significant piece of in-depth research in an area of interest.

The French Language and Literature PhD program from the University at Buffalo is one of progressive specialization that will culminate in a dissertation. Students in RLL are prepared to participate in critical discussions in the discipline and engage meaningfully with the scholarship of colleagues in neighboring disciplines.

The Ph.D. is conferred upon candidates who have demonstrated substantial scholarship and the ability to conduct independent research and analysis in French and Italian. This program is offered at Stanford University.

The French doctoral program at McMaster University focuses on the literatures, films and cultures of the Francophone world.

At the New York University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in French Studies - Law. Join us! 

As a multidisciplinary program, the Institute of French Studies offers three Joint Ph.D. degrees: one in French Studies and French Literature at New York University, one in French Studies and History, and one in French Studies and Anthropology. 

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a phd degree in French and Francophone Studies. 

The aim of the French and Italian program from Princeton University is to train students to become effective teachers and scholars of French language and literature.

The overarching goal of the French Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania is to train students for productive scholarship and for effective college or university teaching.

Earn a research degree at the UK's leading institute in France, either on campus in Paris or via distance learning. Our world-leading academics offer supervision in areas including Paris history and culture, transnational and postcolonial literature, and translation studies.

Graduate programs in French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University generate and analyze culture and society and literature.

The doctoral program in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is designed to provide a broad knowledge of the Francophone world, including France, Francophone Europe, Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana, the Antilles and Haiti, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean.   

The Ph.D. in Modern French Studies offered at the University of Maryland encompasses the Renaissance to the present.

At the New York University, we offer a our graduate students a phd degree in French Studies - History.