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Bourses d’études doctorales, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

Bourses d’études doctorales, Emory University (Atlanta, GA)

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Bourses d’études doctorales, Emory University

(Atlanta, GA)

The Department of French and Italian at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) offers a graduate program in French with a strong critical, cultural, and historical orientation. In addition to their respective specialties in French and Francophone literature, faculty members pursue research in related disciplines such as philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, intellectual history, and post-colonial studies. While mastery of all areas of knowledge is not within the reach of a single individual, the ability to analyze the discursive strategies of the various fields - their vocabularies, their structures, their presuppositions, and their goals - can be. Criticism, or critical theory, is the discipline that takes as its object of study discourse itself, in an attempt to recognize and evaluate the functions of the different languages of knowledge when they are deployed in various texts and also to understand when it is feasible and productive to mobilize them in one’s own analyzes.

Thus we have designed an innovative curriculum to help students (1) understand both the nature of French and Francophone literature and of the theoretical idioms that inform and shape our understanding of that literature; (2) become acquainted with the critical tradition, and especially, the main currents of continental theory that have in recent decades oriented literary critical studies in America; (3) gain some familiarity with current developments in the field of criticism; and (4) learn the fundamentals of second language acquisition and technology-aided instruction. In keeping with this orientation, graduate courses reflect the faculty’s interest in viewing French literature from multi-disciplinary critical approaches. Courses emphasize the close reading of texts as well as modern theories of interpretation.

Through inter-departmental cooperation with programs in Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Women’s Studies and Film Studies, students can readily incorporate an interdisciplinary focus into their course work and dissertation. Moreover, the Laney Graduate School offers Graduate Certificates in English, Film Studies, Bioethics, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, Medieval Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies, Digital Scholarship and Media Studies, which students can pair with their PhD in French Studies in order to formally enhance their interdisciplinary profile. More information is available at: http://www.gs.emory.edu/academics/graduate_certificates.html

All students admitted to the program receive a five-year funding package (tuition plus stipend), and supplemental funds for conference travel and professional development; as part of that package students typically teach five courses. To enrich student’s experience, Emory has recently established a graduate exchange program with Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III. Students are encouraged to apply for one semester or one full academic year typically in the fourth year of graduate study.

For more information about diverse and vibrant academic community, our program and about our faculty, please consult our website: http://french.emory.edu

For more information on Graduate Life in Atlanta: http://www.gs.emory.edu/graduate_life/

Deadline for application: 01/02/2015