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Bourses de Doctorat, Emory University (Atlanta)

Bourses de Doctorat, Emory University (Atlanta)

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : Deborah Elise White )

Emory University (Atlanta, GA) French department offers a graduate program 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 interdisciplinary curriculum to help the student (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. Moreover, 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.

All students admitted to the program receive a five year funding package (tuition, stipend of at least $20,000, supplemental funds for conference travel and professional development); as part of that package students typically teach five courses. 

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/

Director of Graduate Studies
 : Deborah Elise White dwhite2@emory.edu