80 Part-time PhD programmes in Literature

Research in Comparative Literatures and Cultures sits within the School of Modern Languages and builds on two areas of strength within the school: transnational studies and intermediality. University of Bristol offers the Comparative Literatures and Cultures programme.

The Humanities degree at University of Roehampton aims to provide its research students with the opportunity to study in a stimulating, responsive, supportive environment, which fosters independent, critical thinking.

The Modern Languages and Cultures programme at Durham University provides an excellent environment for postgraduate research. Students undertake work on a wide range of topics, including translation, literature, theatre, cinema, and photography, while participating in various postgraduate activities such as dialogue days and research seminars

The Open University UK Literature and Music research group encourages wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of literature and music.

The Digital Humanities at The Open University UK (DH_OU) Research Collaboration is an interdisciplinary network that has made major contributions to the subject internationally.

Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary subject area that brings a range of computational, quantitative and other innovative and collaborative methods to the study of texts, images, histories, languages and cultures, while also being critical about methodology, disciplinarity and pedagogy. We offer a Digital Humanities by Practice degree at the University of London.

This PhD in English Studies - English for Specific Purposes at the International Islamic University of Malaysia allows you to start a substantial piece of supervised research in ESP specialized areas.

English and Creative Writing is home to world-leading and field-defining research in the literature and culture of the Romantic period and long nineteenth century. This Romanticism and 19th Century Literature programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Exploring the literature and languages of the British Isles and America and beyond, from the earliest written sources to the present day with this English programme offered at the University of Aberdeen. 

This Doctor of Literature degree is offered within the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

The graduate program in Literature at University of Texas at Dallas brings together scholars, creative writers and translators who share a commitment to transnational and interdisciplinary approaches to literary study and practice.

The English programme at University of Strathclyde covers all periods from the Renaissance to the present day. 

English and Creative Writing at The Open University UK supports research in a wide range of writings in this 20th Century and Contemporary Literatures programme.

The University of Glasgow hosts the only academic unit in the UK exclusively dedicated to the teaching and research of Scottish Literature.

The English programme offered by Queen's University Belfast offers pathways in Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Language and Linguistics. Proposals are welcomed in all areas from Medieval to Modern, supported by award-winning writers, linguists and critics working across British, Irish and American Literature.

The Warnborough College PhD in the Sociology of Literature looks at how literature has shaped and changed society over the ages.

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.

The English and Humanities programme offered by Birkbeck, University of London explores literary, cultural, theatrical, and creative traditions across historical periods, engaging with developments in contemporary culture and related fields.

The School of Humanities at University of Westminster, based in our historic Regent Street building, offers a vibrant, multidisciplinary research environment, at the centre of which are several innovative research groups and centres. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

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