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Bourse d'études doctorales en lettres françaises à Boston  University (USA)

Bourse d'études doctorales en lettres françaises à Boston University (USA)

Publié le par Perrine Coudurier (Source : Professor Jeffrey Mehlman)

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Department of Romance Studies

718 Commonwealth  Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts  02215

 

GRADUATE STUDY in the ROMANCE LANGUAGES Ph.D. in French Language and Literatures

Ph.D. in Hispanic Language and Literatures

 

The   Department    of   Romance    Studies    at   Boston University invites applications to its doctoral programs in the    literatures    and    cultures    of    France    and    the Francophone world, Spain, and Latin America, including Brazil and the Caribbean.

The application deadline is January 5, 2015. Please visit:

http://www.bu.edu/rs/graduate/graduate_admissions/

 

The Program

The doctorates in French and Hispanic literatures train students to become effective teachers and  scholars  of  language,  literature,  and  culture;  to  undertake  original  research;  and  to participate in the conversations shaping the Humanities today.

Our  PhD  programs,  supported  by  generous  five-year  fellowships,  offer  depth  of  expertise, individualized  attention, abundant opportunities  for professional  development,  and world-class resources, all in one of the United Statesʼ most beautiful and cosmopolitan cities.

Romance Studies at Boston University

The Department of Romance Studies is home to an internationally known faculty.

French: Odile Cazenave, Susan Jackson, Dorothy Kelly, Irit Kleiman, T. Jefferson Kline, Jeffrey

Mehlman, Carol Neidle, Jennifer Row.

 

Spanish and Portuguese: Alicia Borinsky, Daniel Erker, James Iffland, Pedro Lasarte, Rodrigo

Lopes de Barros, Christopher Maurer, Adela Pineda, Alan E. Smith, Irene Zaderenko.

 

We have particular strengths in interdisciplinary approaches to autobiography, editorial studies, film studies, Francophone studies, gender studies, globalization and migration, historiography, Holocaust  studies,  intellectual  history,  Latin  American  studies,  law  and  literature,  linguistics, literary  theory,  medieval  and  Renaissance  studies,  Modernism,  philology,  post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, Realism, theatre and performance studies, Transatlantic studies, travel writing, and poetic traditions.

With  its many  colleges  and  universities,  Boston  offers  an uncommonly  rich environment  for graduate study. Our students are encouraged to pursue cross-disciplinary  projects, and enjoy numerous  opportunities   for  intellectual  exchange  with  students  and

faculty from across Boston University and beyond. Our interdisciplinary programs  and centers  frequently  host visiting filmmakers  and authors, philosophers and musicians, diplomats and statesmen.

We offer courses  on methodologically  diverse topics in literature,  film, and cultural studies and have close ties to Boston  Universityʼs  highly- regarded  Study  Abroad  programs,  with  opportunities  for  our  graduate students  to teach,  do research  and serve  as program  assistants--  for example in our exchange program with the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon and in our programs in Madrid and Buenos Aires.

Our students receive rigorous training in teaching Spanish and French, and graduate with broad experience teaching language courses from across the curriculum. Advanced students serve as teaching assistants in writing, literature, and film courses.

In addition to presenting their work at conferences  and in print, students have organized film festivals,  contributed  to  Study  Abroad  programs,  and  earned  the  Graduate  Certificate  from Bostonʼs  Graduate  Consortium  in  Womenʼs  and  Gender  Studies.    They  also  participate  in community outreach through our Voces Hispánicas program.

Our  students  do  well  in  their  professional  lives  after  graduating.  Recent  grads  have  held fellowships with the ACLS and the UN, and continue to play leading roles at national cultural institutions in the United States and abroad. You can find our PhDs on the tenure track at major universities from Yale to Hobart & William Smith.

 

Fellowship Funding

 

Our graduate programs appeal to talented, dedicated future scholars who seek broad historical, theoretical, and methodological expertise. Candidates should demonstrate a solid knowledge of the appropriate literature, and written and oral competence in the language of study. The PhD program  is open  to those  with  a BA  or MA  in an appropriate  field.  A broad  training  in the humanities  is advantageous.  Those admitted  receive ample intellectual  and financial support towards the preparation of their own independent scholarly careers.

Fellowship  funding  for students  admitted  to the PhD program  includes  complete  tuition,  two years of non-service fellowship and three years of teaching fellowship; it also covers individual participation in the Boston University Basic Medical Insurance Plan.

Many of our students receive fellowships for dissertation research or summer study from outside sources such as the Fulbright, and through competition within the Graduate School and Center for the Humanities.

How to Apply

For more information, please visit http://www.bu.edu/rs/graduate/graduate_admissions/ or write to Jeffrey Mehlman, Director of Graduate Studies, jmehlman@bu.edu.