236 PhD programmes in Language Studies in North America

The Slavic Languages program from Columbia University is rigorous, requiring extensive study of the literature from the middle ages to the present, with some fundamental grounding in the region's history, linguistics, and culture.

Students from the Italian program at Columbia University are able to take advantage of the rich cultural and scholarly programs sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.

We admit students to the English Ph.D. program at Southern Methodist University who have been awarded a B.A. or M.A. degree. 

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

The Rhetoric program at University of Utah provides rigorous theoretical and methodological training across the spectrum of communication studies.

The Graduate Program in English at the University of Kentucky is widely regarded as among the best in the country. 

The Department of English is offered at Rice University as is organized into several different graduate research and teaching clusters.

The graduate program in Spanish and Latin American literatures at Johns Hopkins University offers driven and highly independent students the opportunity for advanced graduate work specifically tailored to their own intellectual interests.

This English program at McMaster University combines a long-standing commitment to the exploration of English literatures of all periods with the study of critical theory and cultural studies.

This English PhD at Boston University provides you with comprehensive training in all areas of literary studies in English.

Yale University’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department is one of the most dynamic in the United States and takes great pride in the creative and forward-thinking scholarship of its faculty and students. 

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. 

As you prepare for a career in higher education, you will gain a strong foundation in the study of literature, in the teaching of college English, and in the disciplinary conventions that guide writing and research in English Studies. This program is offered at the University of North Dakota.

The Italian program at Stanford University is committed to forming PhD graduates who are capable of teaching Italian literature and culture at all levels, but who are also articulate public intellectuals, able to connect their academic pursuits to real world problems.

At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Spanish. 

The degrees offered at University of Wisconsin Madison are the master of arts in Portuguese and the doctor of philosophy with a major in Portuguese. In addition, the department offers a doctoral minor in Spanish or Portuguese.

The Department of English at Simon Fraser University has a selective PhD program. The first two years of the program are designed to provide a necessary grounding for students before they pursue their particular thesis project. 

The Ph.D. program in English at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the number 1 department for literary and critical theory nationally. The research and teaching of department faculty represents and cuts across a range of fields, historical periods, and methodological approaches.

The Ph.D. degree in English from Kent State University permits students to focus on literary traditions and literary theory. 

Emory University’s PhD program in English is both intellectually adventuresome and collegial. Because the program is small and the faculty is deep and wide-ranging in its expertise, students receive close mentoring as they become innovative researchers and teachers in their own right.