Doctorat en littérature à Notre Dame

In the fall of 2002 the University of Notre Dame launched an innovative Ph.D. in Literature that should be of great interest to students planning to pursue graduate study in French. In fact, Notre Dame’s distinctive mix of faculty, library and programmatic resources offers a highly attractive setting for graduate work in French and Francophone Studies.

Combining in one doctoral program the forces of a number of departments and programs--Classics (Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac), East Asian Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German and Russian, Iberian and Latin American Studies (Portuguese, Spanish), Irish Studies, Italian Studies, Philosophy, and Theology--Notre Dame’s new Ph.D. in Literature brings together outstanding faculty and resources to enable doctoral students to study literature both within traditional disciplines and across disciplinary and national boundaries.

Designed for the intellectually creative student, the Ph.D. in Literature combines the breadth and depth of a doctorate in French with a program of study whose built-in flexibility serves a variety of constituencies. Some doctoral candidates will pursue a nationally based literature program within the critical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary framework of the Literature program. Others will combine the resources of the Literature, French, and related programs to design a more individualized, cross-disciplinary course of study. By retaining what is of value in disciplinary integrity and adding a course of study that reflects the present and anticipates the future of literary studies, the Ph.D. in Literature offers a flexible curricular framework for the formation of scholar-teachers whose intellectual and market prospects will be high. It is expected that Ph.D. candidates will compete successfully for positions in humanities, comparative literature, world literature, and French literature programs.

A full range of fellowship funding is available to students in the Ph.D. in Literature program. All admitted students will receive annual stipends of $12,000 plus tuition waivers; merit-based fellowships of $18,000 with a one-time travel grant of $2000 will be awarded to selected applicants. The total financial package thus runs from $37,000-$45,000 per year.

The Ph.D. in Literature program is currently accepting applications for 2003-04. Application fees have been waived for a second year. Please share this information with your graduate director and interested majors or Masters students; if you or your graduate director email me their names (cperry@nd.edu), we will contact your students directly. For more information about the Literature program, visit our website: http://www.nd.edu/~litprog, with links to affiliated departments and programs.