126 PhD programmes in Literature in United States

The Ph.D. program in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette affords students close professional guidance from a diverse graduate faculty distinguished in its commitment to both teaching and research.

The Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington offers extensive and rigorous training in the comparative study of literature.

The Curriculum and Instruction - Reading or Literacy Education program at Louisiana State University is structured to support interdisciplinary studies and individualization for researchers and practitioners. 

University of Kansas offers a two-track Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition. The M.A. to Ph.D. standard track 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 doctoral program in French Language and Literature at Boston University provides each student with a thorough knowledge of French and Francophone literature, its history, and its major works.

At French Literature from Louisiana State University you will gain an advantage byacquiring additional skills and knowledge that come with learning another language. 

The Department of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo is a small department whose distinctiveness lies in fostering students' originality and independent intellectual inquiries.

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. 

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.

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 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.

In the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, we examine the range of literature, its transmission, and its dynamic traversal of linguistic, geographic, cultural, political, and disciplinary boundaries.

A candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Literature at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign must fulfill the general requirements of the Graduate College in addition to those specified for the master's degree. 

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.

If you have an interest in social justice through an examination of and contribution to cultural expression in this hemisphere, then consider joining our program in Theatre (Theatre and Performance of the Americas) at Arizona State University.

Students of the Comparative Literature course Rutgers University consider texts, performances and theoretical inquiries across multiple languages, histories, disciplines, and media. 

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.

Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) was formed to explore how the discipline could join its strengths in critical theory to such forces as third world literature and gender and sexuality studies.

At Florida State University we offer an M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition and a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition.