277 Full-time PhD programmes in Literature

The University of California, Riverside English Department is committed to the study of English and American literature and cultures.

Undertaking doctoral English Studies research at University of London allows you to develop in-depth knowledge, while making a meaningful contribution to your chosen field.

The Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University offers a global breadth of study of literature and other cultural productions.

The Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies at Tampere University educates professionals in the analysis of literature, society and culture who are able to carry out independent scientific research. 

The English Literature programme offered by Bogazici University develops advanced expertise in literary analysis and critical scholarship across historical periods and theoretical approaches.

The selective, top-ranked Ph.D. program in English at the University of Mississippi produces literary scholars, educators, and writers whose careers span academia and beyond.

A small, elite PhD degree program housed in the Department of English, the Comparative Literature program at the University of Maryland is committed to the comparative and transnational study of literature and other media.

The Postcolonial and Global Literatures research group at The Open University UK has contributed to major externally-funded projects, including: Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950, and City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship.

Beyond their individual projects, our students are fully engaged in the rich intellectual life of our subject area and the School of Critical Studies, organizing reading groups and conferences, participating in colloquia, and, from the second year of study, contributing to undergraduate teaching. We offer a English Literature degree at the University of Glasgow.

Comparative Literature at University of Glasgow is an exciting interdisciplinary, intercultural, and inter-medial discipline housed in our School of Modern Languages and Cultures with expertise in ten modern languages and cultures.

Georgia State University offers the largest English - Rhetoric and Composition program in the Southeast, with eight specialized faculty members in rhetoric, composition, digital media and communication, writing center theories and pedagogies and language studies.

This Poetry - Text, Practice as Research  programme from University of Kent enables promising poets to develop the potential of poetry as a tool of inquiry within the humanities. 

The doctoral programme in English Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies at University of Cyprus is designed for students who wish to undertake research in Anglophone or comparative literature, with particular emphasis on theoretical, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.

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

The Literary Studies programme at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn equips graduates with solid expertise within the scope of humanistic and social sciences; it also provides them with thorough specialist knowledge within literary studies.

Graduate students in the Rhetoric, Composition and Teaching of English program from The University of Arizona are often distinguished for their public engagement and action-oriented research, published scholarship, and innovative teaching.  

The mission of the English program at the University of Miami is to introduce them to a range of critical and theoretical methodologies; to introduce them to a range of critical and theoretical methodologies; to provide them with the skills needed to establish their own scholarly expertise within an area of specialization; to prepare them for careers in scholarship and research within the academy.

The Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies program at the University of Miami is designed primarily to prepare students for careers as university professors and research scholars. Students develop advanced language, teaching, and research skills that lend themselves to other professions, as well.

 This World and Comparative Literature PhD programme from The University of Exeter seeks to cross the borders and bridge the distances between languages, literatures and cultures.

The English Literature programme offered by Swansea University enables doctoral researchers to undertake a substantial independent research project which should be of a publishable standard. It offers supervision in most areas of literature from the middle ages to the present and supports original work across a wide range of literary fields.