138 PhD programmes in Literature in North America

The English programme at Rutgers University offers comprehensive training in all the major periods of British, U.S., and global Anglophone literature, as well as the history of the book, literary and cultural theory, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, performance studies, and feminist and sexuality studies.

Students in this program at Pennsylvania State University may choose from a variety of courses in English literature and language, rhetoric and composition, and theory/cultural studies.

The PhD in English at George Washington University features areas of strength in American Literature and Culture, British and Postcolonial Studies, Crip/Queer Studies and Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 

Each Romance Languages and Literatures graduate program at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill offers advanced interdisciplinary training by the department’s world-class faculty, whose research reflects the wide range of approaches that constitute the study of the humanities today. 

The Tufts University PhD program in English provides a supportive and collaborative environment for rigorous graduate study and professional development.

The Literature at the University of California, San Diego stresses the transnational outlook of the program and emphasizes its stake in theoretical, interdisciplinary, and cultural studies. 

The Comparative Literature Graduate Program at University of California, Davis enables students to gain an advanced knowledge of several literatures in their original languages in a theoretically and historically informed context, and from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. 

At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer a Music - Performance and Literature degree.

Pursue your passion for literature and prepare for roles in academia, writing, editing and research with this English degree program at the at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

The English program at the University of South Florida features small seminar-style graduate classes and offers many opportunities for directed research and professional development.

The Ph.D. degree Literature at University of Kansas offers the opportunity for advanced and concentrated research to students who hold an M.A. degree in English or a related field, from KU or elsewhere. 

The Field of Comparative Literature at Cornell University offers a Ph.D. degree in all major areas of literary study and on literary and cultural theory. Because the field is small (about twenty students), it is possible to plan diverse and interdisciplinary programs of study. 

Welcome to the website of the interdepartmental Ph.D. program in Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) at University of California, Berkeley!

The Stanford University English department has a long tradition of training the next generation of scholars to become leaders in academia and related fields.  

Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature has played a significant role in the history of literary study in the United States and abroad since its inception. The English and Comparative Literature program is offered by Columbia University.

We offer a Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies phd degree at the University of Georgia.

The English program at Louisiana State University trains students to become expert researchers, writers, editors, and teachers.

The Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature curriculum at University of Houston  is comprised of professional development courses, creative writing workshops, courses in a graduate curricular specialization, and electives courses. 

Graduates of Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University leave with the historical knowledge, linguistic skills, and interpretive methodologies necessary to undertake scholarly research on and to teach literature in at least two languages.

Organized by the theoretical and interdisciplinary emphasis of critical and cultural studies, the Critical and Cultural Studies doctoral program at the University of Pittsburgh fosters challenging and inventive work in the ongoing project of English studies, broadly conceived.