Doctorat en littérature, Université de Notre-Dame

Chers Collègues:

Je vous signale la création en 2002 d'un programme de doctorat en littérature à l'Université de Notre Dame, aux Etats-Unis. Tout étudiant admis dans ce nouveau programme bénéficiera d'un soutien financier exceptionnellement généreux. Veuillez bien diffuser l'annonce ci-dessous (rédigée en anglais, pour des étudiants qui s'intéresseraient au côté français de ce programme) auprès de toute personne susceptible de s'y intéresser. Merci.

Cordialement,
Catherine Perry


In the fall of 2002 the University of Notre Dame is launching an innovative Ph.D. in Literature that should be of great interest to students planning to pursue graduate study in French.

It combines in one doctoral program the forces of several departments and programs - Classics (Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac), East Asian Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German, Iberian and Latin American Studies (Portuguese, Spanish), and Irish Studies--and draws on Notre Dame's strengths in Philosophy and Theology. The Ph.D. in Literature thus 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 $15,000 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 $39,220 - $44,220 per year.

The Ph.D. in Literature program is currently accepting applications for 2002-03. Application fees have been waived for our inaugural 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 , we will contact your students directly. For more information about the Literature program, please visit our website:
http://www.nd.edu/~litprog/ with links to affiliated departments and programs.

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Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
343 O'Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: (219) 631-6472
Fax: (616) 683-9964
http://www.nd.edu:80/~romlang/faculty/perry.html