276 Full-time PhD programmes in Literature

The Ph.D. Program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Washington requires completion of 90 credits, and includes five components — coursework, completion of a graduate certificate, general exams, the dissertation, and the final exam. 

Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature has played a significant role in the history of literary study in the United States and abroad since its inception. The English and Comparative Literature program is offered by Columbia University.

The Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature curriculum at University of Houston  is comprised of professional development courses, creative writing workshops, courses in a graduate curricular specialization, and electives courses. 

The Slavic Languages and Literatures program at Northwestern University, one of the best in the country, specializes in Russian literature and culture. 

The Graduate Program of the Comparative Literature department at Yale University invites students to the study and understanding of literature beyond linguistic or national boundaries. 

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.

We offer a Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies phd degree at the University of Georgia.

The English program at Louisiana State University trains students to become expert researchers, writers, editors, and teachers.

Staff at the Finno-Ugric Languages section of the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University have wide interests covering the whole Finno-Ugric language family, ranging from Scandinavia to Siberia.

The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina is designed to enable students to develop competence in the study of two or more literatures.

One of the strongest and most diversified graduate English programs in North America, the University of Toronto’s Graduate English Department presents a wide array of approaches to the study of literature that includes both rigorous historical scholarship and the innovations of new theoretical, cultural, and interdisciplinary methods.

ANU ranks among the world's very finest universities. This Doctor of Letters is offered at the Australian National University.

University of New Brunswick's celebrated English graduate programs offer both creative writing and academic streams of study, helping students reach both their creative and critical potential.

The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside is an internationally recognized site for advanced study in comparative literature.

The Department of English Literary Studies at University of Cape Town supervises research degrees in a broad range of areas, from Early Modern to contemporary literature and theory. 

We offer a Comparative Studies - Languages, Literatures And Arts degree at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. The aim of the scientific discipline known as “Comparative Studies” is to identify relationships between authors, texts, works of art, movements and phenomena of different cultures so as to highlight their characteristic aspects in terms of both continuity and specificity.