236 PhD programmes in Language Studies in North America

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. 

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 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.

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.

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

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 French faculty at the University of Pittsburgh is a community of scholars and teachers committed to breaking down the borders between disciplines, time periods, and geographic contexts

Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin Madison is a national leader of doctoral programs in the field, and welcomes students with a B.A./B.S. or M.A. who are interested in all areas of Russian and comparative Slavic prose, poetry, drama, and philosophy. 

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. 

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.

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.

The PhD program in Comparative Culture and Language at Arizona State University offers professional training that is linguistically well-grounded, historically and culturally informed, and methodologically transdisciplinary, through courses and supervision of research.

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

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.

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.

The English Language and Literature programme offered by Cornell University develops advanced research expertise in anglophone literary traditions, critical theory, and cultural analysis.

The Department of English offers an integrated MA/PhD program at The Ohio State University, giving graduate students a variety of opportunities to work closely with distinguished scholars and writers. 

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.

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.