Bourses de doctorat / Special Doctoral Fellowships, Ph.D. Program in French/Francophone Studies, University of Kansas (Fall 2017 admission)
The Department of French & Italian at the University of Kansas is currently accepting applications to its Ph.D. program for fall semester 2017.
Two specially funded multi-year fellowships are available for top-rank internationally and nationally competitive applicants to the Ph.D. program for Fall 2017: a Hall Center for the Humanities Doctoral Fellowship and a Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship.
For both fellowships, we seek students with native or near-native fluency in French, with an interest in both teaching and research in the humanities, and with a research focus in French and Francophone studies for which the student has a convincing passion and focus.
Our doctoral candidates work closely with faculty who conduct internationally recognized research in a broad range of fields from medieval to contemporary, including the Francophone world. We seek national and international degree candidates who wish to develop their intellectual talents through rigorous exploration of the literary, artistic, and cultural riches of French and Francophone worlds. Our doctoral program is holistic, we produce innovative researchers who are excellent teachers, and who receive state-of-the art training in topics related to public communication, public humanities, and digital humanities.
The Hall Center for Humanities Doctoral Fellowship includes four years of non-teaching funding with a stipend of $20,000 plus residential tuition remission, and one to two years as Graduate Teaching Assistant of French with an annual stipend of $15,500 and full tuition remission.
The Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship includes two years of non-teaching funding (the first year of study and the dissertation completion year) and three years of funding as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. The stipend for each of the five years will be $25,000 plus full tuition remission.
As a condition of the Fellowships, the Hall Center Doctoral Fellow and the Chancellor’s Fellow are expected to apply for external funding for the dissertation research year abroad, in France or a French-speaking country. The Hall Center Humanities Grant Development Office has an excellent record of success in fostering doctoral students’ external grant activities and will assist Fellows in preparing grant applications: http://hallcenter.ku.edu/humanities-grant-development-office
Other departmental and university research funding opportunities are available as well: the departmental Cornell and Mahieu Funds support research overseas; the departmental Magerus Fund supports scholarly conference presentations; the Office of Graduate Studies and Hall Center for the Humanities offer many other research awards. Chimères, one of the nation’s only graduate-run journals in French and Francophone studies, now in its 45th year, offers our graduate degree candidates exceptional opportunities for peer research review and editorial experience.
To be considered for these fellowships for fall 2017, please submit your application for admission to the doctoral program by February 1, 2017. To apply, click here: http://graduate.ku.edu/ku-graduate-application
For more information about the Ph.D. program, please contact the director of graduate studies, Prof. Van Kelly (vkelly@ku.edu, +1-785-864-9073). To contact faculty members, please consult our website: http://frenchitalian.ku.edu/personnel
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
The University of Kansas provides excellent research facilities: our libraries rank in the top 50th nationally for volumes held. Watson Library, the main library, has strong holdings in all fields of French and Francophone studies; Kenneth Spencer Research Library is home to more than 750,000 books and manuscripts; Spencer Museum of Art houses more than 37,000 works. Library collections on our Lawrence campus contain more than 4.2 million volumes.
Our campus is consistently ranked in national polls as among the most beautiful. Set on the Kansas River, the city of Lawrence, with a population of 90,000, provides a vibrant yet calm environment with beautiful parks, bustling downtown streets, and a great selection of recreational activities. Lawrence is repeatedly ranked among the top 5 US college towns.
ABOUT OUR FACULTY:
Allan H. Pasco is the Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature. His extensive research contextualizes eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century French literature within the periods’ culture, while emphasizing such major figures as Rousseau, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust.
Antje Ziethen is a specialist in Francophone global literature, the urban novel, postcolonial studies, diaspora/transnational studies, geo-centered literary theory, and gender studies.
Tom Booker’s research interests include the French novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, narratology, and first-person narration (novel, autofiction, autobiography).
Patrizio Ceccagnoli focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Italian Literature and Culture, Italian and European Avant-garde of the 20th century, Giacomo Leopardi and Italian Romanticism, theory and practice of translation, textual criticism and literary theory.
Diane Fourny works on 18th-century French literature and culture with a focus on 18th-century novel, the history of ideas, Enlightenment and critique of Enlightenment, and autobiography.
Bruce Hayes is Chair of Department. His research interest is Renaissance studies—theater, popular culture, and Rabelais—with a focus on humor studies and post-Reformation religious polemics.
Caroline Jewers specializes in literature and cultural history of medieval France and Occitania, with a focus on chivalric romance and lyric poetry, as well as early history of the novel and medievalism.
Van Kelly is serves as Graduate Director. He specializes in French/Francophone film, literature, and thought of 20th-/21st centuries, poetics, as well as political and historical imaginaries.
Paul Scott’s area of focus lies in seventeenth-century studies, particularly theater and poetry; early modern spirituality, liturgy, and hagiography; subversion in Ancien Régime France.
Kimberly Swanson is a specialist in second language acquisition and language pedagogy, with a focus on French and English phonology/phonetics and on history of the French language.
Van Kelly, Graduate Director
Department of French and Italian
University of Kansas
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