54 Full-time PhD programmes in French Studies

We offer our graduate students a phd degree in French at the University of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma has a rich legacy of providing an exceptional experience to students. 

The Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University is part of a network of intellectual sites grouped within the Center for French Civilization and Culture. 

The French program from Columbia University, consistently ranked in the top five programs nationally, is designed to prepare graduates for a career in productive scholarship.

The doctoral program in French Language and Literature at Boston University provides each student with a thorough knowledge of French and Francophone literature, its history, and its major works.

Studying for a PhD in French at the University of Stirling, you’ll benefit from our international partnerships and broad and deep specialisms in Francophone Studies, especially Africa and Canada/Quebec, as well as metropolitan France.

Doctoral candidates in French at Rutgers University receive rigorous and broad training in various aspects of French language, literature in and outside France, theory, literary and cultural criticism, and cinema.

At Western University - Canada, we offer our graduate students a phd program degree in French Studies. 

At French Literature from Louisiana State University you will gain an advantage byacquiring additional skills and knowledge that come with learning another language. 

French Language and Literature students at the University of Toronto receive rigorous research training in either literature or linguistics, culminating in original research for their doctoral thesis.

French at University of Glasgow offers a broad spectrum of expertise and supervision from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, on poetry, the novel, theatre and performance studies, language studies, cultural studies, theory and thought, and visual cultures including emblems, fine art and cinema.

The Department of French, Francophone & Italian Studies at University of Kansas offers the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in French literature, with a balanced emphasis on all periods from medieval through twentieth century.

The French course from The University of Cambridge, is awarded on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing which reports original research into a closely defined area of enquiry.

The French Research programme offered by King's College London explores French and Francophone literature, culture, thought, history, politics, and visual media across diverse historical periods and contexts.

Graduate students in French and Francophone World Studies Ph.D. Program at The University of Iowa benefit from the expertise of a nationally and internationally known faculty.

Yale University’s graduate program in French literature offers both a rigorous grounding in French Literature and an interdisciplinary approach to French theory, thought, and culture.  

The joint Ph.D. Program in French Studies and Anthropology at New York University allows students to blend rigorous training in anthropology with a broad, multi-disciplinary exploration of the French and Francophone worlds.

The French and Francophone Studies program at Northwestern University focuses on literary and cultural production from the Francophone world. 

Students in the French PhD program at the University of Manitoba will explore literatures and cultures from different parts of la Francophonie, from the 17th century to this day.

The Institute of French Studies (IFS) at NYU is an interdisciplinary program devoted to the study of modern and contemporary France and francophone countries. We offer a French Studies and French degree at the New York University. 

This French (Research) programme is offered by the Department of Language, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg.