236 PhD programmes in Language Studies in North America

Doctoral students conduct their studies both in Portugal and in the United States, and are co-advised by faculty from Carnegie Mellon University and from Portuguese partner higher education institutions. We offer a Computer Science with Portugal degree at the Carnegie Mellon University. 

University of Wisconsin Madison offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Japanese, specializing either in linguistics or in literature and culture. 

At University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer courses on topics in German and Scandinavian languages, literatures, and cultures across all periods, including historical and synchronic Germanic linguistics, and German language pedagogy. 

The Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers a Ph.D. degree in the areas of literature studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a phd degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. 

Make connections between ideas, construct persuasive arguments and gain new perspectives through the power of language with the English phd degree offered at the Texas Christian University. 

The Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico requires a minimum of 36 hours of graduate courses (not including dissertation hours). 

Yale University’s Ph.D. Program in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the offers training in a wide variety of topics and areas that intersect on the terrains of ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theory. 

The English Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania prepares students for full participation in the profession as scholars and teachers of English and American literature, broadly conceived.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University offers comprehensive training in Spanish, Spanish American,  Brazilian literatures and cultures.

The Slavic Languages and Literatures program at Stanford University is known for its innovative approach to the cultural disciplines, personalized guidance of graduate students, and insistence on the highest intellectual standards.

At the West Virginia University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in English. Each graduate program sets their own term of admission and application deadline.

Students admitted to Writing and Rhetoric Studies program at University of Utah enter an exciting environment of intellectual pursuit, where the exchange of ideas is vibrant. 

The graduate program in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from University of California, Berkeley is designed for future scholars and teachers in the fields of Scandinavian language, literature, and cultural history.

The Department of Romance Languages at University of Georgia offers MAs and PhDs in French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish-language cultural studies, linguistics, and literature, with a focus on interdisciplinary study, close mentorship, and professional training.

Our PhD in English and Literary Arts - Literary Studies at University of Denver exposes you to a wide range of literature and literary theory as you prepare to teach and research at the university level. 

Carleton University’s PhD English program recognizes the shaping power of cultural context for understanding the production of literature. 

Applicants for admission to the PhD program in English at The University of Alabama are required to take the general test and the written test of the Graduate Record Examination.

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

The graduate program in English at the University of Virginia has long been a distinguished one. At a time of rapid transition in the field of literary and cultural studies, we are intent upon sustaining our offerings in traditional historical periods, elaborating those in diverse world literatures, and engaging fully with the spectrum of current theoretical concerns.