278 PhD programmes in Literature

The University of California, Riverside English Department is committed to the study of English and American literature and cultures.

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

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.

At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), we offer a phd degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures. 

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.

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.

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. 

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 Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies at Tampere University educates professionals in the analysis of literature, society and culture who are able to carry out independent scientific research. 

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

The Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies program at the University of Miami is designed primarily to prepare students for careers as university professors and research scholars. Students develop advanced language, teaching, and research skills that lend themselves to other professions, as well.

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.