278 PhD programmes in Literature

The Doctoral School of Humanities was established on the basis of many years of experience in educating doctoral students at the University of Warsaw. 

The Languages and Literatures programme at Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan provides interdisciplinary doctoral training in linguistics, literary studies, and Polish studies.

Become a master of your area of interest in Spanish linguistics or research by earning a PhD in Spanish from the University at Albany.

The German Languages and Literatures program at the University of Pennsylvania takes a forward-looking perspective on developments in the field.

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

This Literary Theory degree programme is offered by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree program to students qualified to pursue literary studies involving several languages. Students pursue research across languages and national literatures, and theoretical issues that cross traditional disciplines.

The Professional Doctorate in English Language Education and English Literature at The University of Wales Trinity Saint David offers English language professionals an opportunity to gain a research qualification at doctoral level linked to their area of work or professional expertise.

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 doctoral programme in English Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies at University of Cyprus is designed for students who wish to undertake research in Anglophone or comparative literature, with particular emphasis on theoretical, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.

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

This Linguistic Studies and Foreign Literatures PhD degree from University of Pisa is one of three doctoral courses offered by the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, each with the goal to promote, organize and manage activities related to high-quality research projects within the area of the human sciences. 

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 English Language and Literature programme offered by Hong Kong Baptist University develops advanced scholarship in Chinese language, literature, and classical traditions across historical and theoretical contexts.

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 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 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.

This English (Research) programme is offered by the Department of English within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.