277 Full-time PhD programmes in Literature

The School of Humanities at University of Westminster, based in our historic Regent Street building, offers a vibrant, multidisciplinary research environment, at the centre of which are several innovative research groups and centres. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Students in the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English program at the University of Manitoba will develop a higher degree of specialization and advanced training in research and application in English literature.

The English Literature programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University explores literary texts, cultural production, narrative forms, and critical approaches across diverse historical periods, genres, and cultural contexts.

The Art, Literature and Cultural Studies programme from Aarhus University covers a wide range of studies of the arts in the broadest sense: i.e. visual art and culture, including more recent media such as film, video and computer; theatre, including performance and dance; music, from classical music to modern rhythmic music and sound studies; and literature, from national and area-defined contexts

The aim of the Slavic Languages and Literature program from Princeton University is to further interest, knowledge, and scholarship relating to Russia, Slavic Central Europe, and Eurasia, primarily through the cultural humanities. 

This is an innovative and exciting programme in which you focus on writing a full-length, literary novel of between 90,000 and 150,000 words. 

The Department of English at Johns Hopkins University offers a program leading to the PhD degree in English and American literature. The department is small in numbers and its graduate students are carefully selected on the basis of their professional distinction as teachers, critics, and scholars.

Hispanic Languages and Literatures from University of California, Berkeley will assess student preparation.

The English Literature (Individual Doctorate) program from the University of Zurich requires participants to conduct independent research, write a PhD thesis, and to perform coursework. 

This Linguistic Studies and Foreign Literatures PhD degree from University of Pisa is one of three doctoral courses offered by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, each with the goal to promote, organize and manage activities related to high-quality research projects within the area of the human sciences. 

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

The Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo is a small department whose distinctiveness lies in fostering students' originality and independent intellectual inquiries.

Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) was formed to explore how the discipline could join its strengths in critical theory to such forces as third world literature and gender and sexuality studies.

At Florida State University we offer an M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition and a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition. 

The Comparative Literature programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London critically explores literary works, visual culture, and other cultural forms across multiple linguistic, regional, and national settings.

The Comparative Literature programme offered by Umea University develops advanced research expertise in literary theory, literary history, and comparative analysis across national and international contexts.

If you have an interest in social justice through an examination of and contribution to cultural expression in this hemisphere, then consider joining our program in Theatre (Theatre and Performance of the Americas) at Arizona State University.

The English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland is a dynamic and productive community of full-time faculty members engaged in active research programs, graduate supervision, and publication of literary scholarship and creative writing.

Students of the Comparative Literature course Rutgers University consider texts, performances and theoretical inquiries across multiple languages, histories, disciplines, and media. 

A candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Literature at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign must fulfill the general requirements of the Graduate College in addition to those specified for the master's degree.