138 PhD programmes in Literature in North America

The PhD program in English (Literature) at Arizona State University trains students in various methodologies, pedagogies and areas of inquiry that constitute literary and cultural studies.

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.

Students in our Language and Literacy Education programs at University of British Columbia are teachers and other professional educators who engage in courses, conversations and research addressing a broad range of issues and contexts – in and out of schools, nationally and internationally, and across the lifespan.

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. 

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. 

This challenging graduate diploma highlights the comparative, multilingual, cross-cultural nature of a student’s graduate training. We offer a Comparative Literature degree at the York University. 

Our concentration in British and Irish Literary Studies at The University of New Mexico offers focused study in three areas: Early Modern Studies, British and Irish Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Studies, and Modern British Literary Studies.

The Comparative Literature Department at Emory University offers Ph.D. students a wide-ranging theoretical and interdisciplinary curriculum that prepares them to engage in research and teaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries and to interrogate the definition of the literary itself.

Our Literature, Media, and Culture program at Florida State University exposes students to provocative questions that spark scholarly engagement and creativity, helping them discuss the social and political impact of literature. Together, we explore literature's various histories, cultures, and philosophical and geographic movements.

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

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 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 comparative and cross-disciplinary approach in the Comparative Thought and Literature program at Johns Hopkins University develops habits of inquiry, attention, and imagination as it explores questions emerging from diverse ecologies of expression.

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.  

Comparative Literature from Louisiana State University is an interdisciplinary program that encourages students to approach literary studies from multiple perspectives.