36 Full-time PhD programmes in Literacy Education

The Ph.D. program in Rhetoric at the Carnegie Mellon University is distinguished by its focus on rigorous method and the diversity of specialized methods/contexts (traditional-scholarly, empirical, discourse-based, classroom-based, legal, digital) in which rhetoric can be studied.

The Learning, Cognition, Instruction, and Development - Literacy Education degree at Rutgers University prepares students to conduct qualitative and quantitative empirical research to advance the development of literacy theory and its application to practice.

Expand your professional opportunities as you deepen your expertise in literacy and language education. We offer a Literacy, Culture, and Language Education degree at Indiana University Bloomington.

The graduate of Literary Science programme from Pavol Jozef Safárik University in Kosice acquires broad knowledge from the field of methodology of research, genology and poetics of fiction and poetry. 

The Ph.D. in Literacy Studies program at University of Pennsylvania prepares scholar-practitioners for positions in research universities and other educational organizations with a primary mission related to furthering knowledge in literacy and literacy education.

In this Literacy, Culture, and Language Education program at Indiana University Bloomington, you'll conduct advanced research into literacy, culture, and language education and take the next step toward a career as a faculty researcher.

The Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction - Literacy Studies at the University of South Florida prepares research scholars with expertise in literacy processes, literacy instruction, and literacy teacher education.

The PhD program in Learning, Literacies and Technologies at Arizona State University is designed to prepare scholars who address socially significant educational programs and transform preK-20 educational programs through rigorous research, transdisciplinary engagements and educational interventions.

The Language and Literacies Education program at the University of Toronto is offered by the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree.

Researchers in the in the School of Languages and Applied linguistics bring socially oriented perspectives on language to the study of learning and teaching with this Language and Literacy in Education programme at The Open University UK.

Graduates of Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University leave with the historical knowledge, linguistic skills, and interpretive methodologies necessary to undertake scholarly research on and to teach literature in at least two languages.

Find out more about our PhD in Literary Practice at University of Warwick. Take time to write your novel, poetry, short stories or non-fiction under the supervision of our published, prize-winning writers.

The Literacy, Culture, and Language Education PhD program at The University of Iowa brings together scholarly traditions and contemporary theory in Multilingual Education and Applied Linguistics, Literacy and Cultural Studies, and Social Studies Education.

This Culture, Literacy and Language PhD program at The University of Texas at San Antonio focuses on the interrelatedness of culture, literacy and language and is designed to provide a firm foundation in the fields of cultural studies, literacy development, and language learning and use.

The Curriculum and Instruction - Literacy Education programme offered by University of Wyoming enables students to acquire expertise and further the global knowledge base in literacy education while collaborating with faculty and developing a scholarly career.

The Literary and Cultural Studies program offered by University of Memphis emphasizes the importance of discourse in structuring human experience.