277 Full-time PhD programmes in Literature

The Humanities course at University of Ferrara aims to train young researchers with an excellent scientific profile in the human sciences. 

The English and Humanities programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London explores literary, cultural, theatrical, and creative traditions across historical periods, engaging with developments in contemporary culture and related fields.

The Professional Doctorate in English Language Education and English Literature at The University of Wales Trinity Saint David offers English language professionals an opportunity to gain a research qualification at doctoral level linked to their area of work or professional expertise.

The graduate of the Didactics of English Language and Literature programme from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra has a systematic, extensive, and comprehensive set of knowledge in the field necessary for independent scientific research, including knowledge and understanding of relations with other parts of the field and related fields etc.

American Literature at the University of Sussex is a huge field intersecting with other global literatures, cultures and nations, reaching from the colonial period to its current, enormously powerful position. 

A doctoral degree in Languages, Linguistics and Literature at the University of South Africa (UNISA) will require you to undertake research at the most advanced academic levels culminating in the submission, assessment and acceptance of a thesis.

The Comparative Literature program at Purdue University is housed in the School of Languages and Cultures and offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees.

The University of Cincinnati offers a doctoral degree in English with tracks in Literary and Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric & Composition.

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

University of Kansas offers a two-track Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition. The M.A. to Ph.D. standard track offers the opportunity for advanced and concentrated research to students who hold an M.A. degree in English or a related field, from KU or elsewhere. 

The Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington offers extensive and rigorous training in the comparative study of literature.

The Ph.D. program in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette affords students close professional guidance from a diverse graduate faculty distinguished in its commitment to both teaching and research.

Become a master of your area of interest in Spanish linguistics or research by earning a PhD in Spanish from the University at Albany.

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree program to students qualified to pursue literary studies involving several languages. Students pursue research across languages and national literatures, and theoretical issues that cross traditional disciplines.

This Literary Theory degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

The German Languages and Literatures program at the University of Pennsylvania takes a forward-looking perspective on developments in the field.

The University of Brighton offers an active, supportive and stimulating environment for English Literature PhD study in a range of literary fields.

English at University of Cambridge is an outstanding place to work on Anglophone literature. Students and scholars benefit from world-class libraries, and from each other. The PhD cohort is diverse and large in number. No particular area or approach is preferred.

We have outstanding facilities in the field of Text and Image Studies, from the holdings of the library from University of Glasgow, including the Stirling Maxwell Collection, and The Hunterian, to an environment that includes world-leading publications and journals, the hosting of conferences, and exhibition curation.

The Doctoral School of Humanities was established on the basis of many years of experience in educating doctoral students at the University of Warsaw.