76 PhD programmes in Literature in United Kingdom

What if your personal exploration of cultural and linguistic expression aided international relations? We offer a Comparative Literature programme at University of Nottingham.

The DPhil in Literature and Arts at the University of Oxford is a part-time doctorate in the Humanities offered by the Department for Continuing Education, focusing on a subject in British cultural history, which falls between the 15th and 20th centuries.

We have outstanding facilities in the field of Text and Image Studies, from the holdings of the library from University of Glasgow, including the Stirling Maxwell Collection, and The Hunterian, to an environment that includes world-leading publications and journals, the hosting of conferences, and exhibition curation.

American Literature at the University of Sussex is a huge field intersecting with other global literatures, cultures and nations, reaching from the colonial period to its current, enormously powerful position. 

English at University of Cambridge is an outstanding place to work on Anglophone literature. Students and scholars benefit from world-class libraries, and from each other. The PhD cohort is diverse and large in number. No particular area or approach is preferred.

The English Literature programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University explores literary texts, cultural production, narrative forms, and critical approaches across diverse historical periods, genres, and cultural contexts.

This Poetry - Text, Practice as Research  programme from University of Kent enables promising poets to develop the potential of poetry as a tool of inquiry within the humanities. 

The History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Research Collaboration, based in English & Creative Writing at The Open University UK has made major contributions to the subject internationally.

Comparative Literature at University of Glasgow is an exciting interdisciplinary, intercultural, and inter-medial discipline housed in our School of Modern Languages and Cultures with expertise in ten modern languages and cultures.

This Literary Studies programme is offered by the Department of English Studies at Durham University, one of the leading English Departments in the UK, offering teaching and research of the highest quality.

The Postcolonial and Global Literatures research group at The Open University UK has contributed to major externally-funded projects, including: Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950, and City Fictions of the New India: Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship.

From Medieval and Renaissance writing to the 18th century to the present, from the novel to poetry to modernism, postmodernism and the contemporary scene – English at the University of Sussex is strongly committed to the interdisciplinary study of literature.

Undertaking doctoral English Studies research at University of London allows you to develop in-depth knowledge, while making a meaningful contribution to your chosen field.

Beyond their individual projects, our students are fully engaged in the rich intellectual life of our subject area and the School of Critical Studies, organizing reading groups and conferences, participating in colloquia, and, from the second year of study, contributing to undergraduate teaching. We offer a English Literature degree at the University of Glasgow.

The Comparative Literature programme at University of Kent offers an excellent environment for the postgraduate study of literature beyond national and linguistic borders.

 This World and Comparative Literature PhD programme from The University of Exeter seeks to cross the borders and bridge the distances between languages, literatures and cultures.

The English PhD programme at City St George's, University of London allows you to study in a vibrant academic environment in London where you can emerge as an independent scholar producing original research.

Study a wide range of English, Scottish, Irish, American and world literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day at the University of St Andrews School of English.

The English Literature programme offered by Swansea University enables doctoral researchers to undertake a substantial independent research project which should be of a publishable standard. It offers supervision in most areas of literature from the middle ages to the present and supports original work across a wide range of literary fields.

As a PhD researcher in English Studies at the University of Stirling, you’ll become a key part of our research environment. We also offer the opportunity to pursue a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing, with specialist supervision from the writers on our staff.