Graduate Studies in French - University of Virginia Extended Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
GRADUATE STUDIES IN FRENCH at THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Bourses de Doctorat 2015-2016
Nouvelle date limite pour la soumission des candidatures : 15 janvier 2016
Programme d’études de français à l’Université de Virginie
Charlottesville, VA ETATS-UNIS
The Department of French at the University of Virginia is a dynamic and supportive community of scholars, comprised of 13 graduate faculty and 3 affiliated faculty, 22 funded graduate students and nearly 100 undergraduate majors. We currently seek to recruit a 14th faculty member specializing in the Francophone Cultures of the Global South.
Our fields of research and teaching specialties include all genres and chronological periods, a wide range of Francophone cultures as well as a rich variety of critical and theoretical approaches, and the following interdisciplinary areas: Cultural History, Text and Image Studies, Language and Rhetoric, Queer Studies, Book Culture, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, Film Studies and the Digital Humanities. Faculty also actively participate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics and the Programs in Comparative Literature, Afro-American and African Studies, and Medieval Studies, as well as maintaining strong ties to the UVA Departments of History; English; Drama; Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; and Anthropology; to the UVA Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Student research interests: Our students actively contribute to the intellectual life of the Department and the University. The topics of their research, which they frequently present at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, currently include, but are not limited to: the play between religiosity and secularism in late Medieval literature; Francophone Maghrebi literature; late antique legends in medieval contexts; Mediterranean studies; theater in Quebec and the French Caribbean; the post-nuclear flâneur in French post-war film; Marguerite Duras; Perceptions of Assimilation in Early Francophone Literature; Stendhal and Life Narratives; images of Japan in French/Francophone works; Rethinking Francophone sub-Saharan African Filmmaking; Ecofeminism; the influential role of horses in romance and chanson de geste; rethinking the scatological in French visions of deportation
Funding: The Department of French is committed to providing full funding to all students for the duration of the M.A.-Ph.D. degree. We offer 5-years of guaranteed funding including two years of full fellowship support and three years of graduate teaching assistantships (GTAs). This funding package covers tuition, fees, and comprehensive health insurance. It also includes an annual stipend, in 2015-16, of $18,300 for basic living expenses in Charlottesville. We are hopeful that this stipend amount will be increased for 2016-17.
Applications to the graduate programs must be submitted by January 15th, 2016. Please see http://french.virginia.edu/graduate/prospective and http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/gradschool/index.html for application forms and full instructions. For further information, please contact Janet Horne, Director of Graduate Studies at jhorne@virginia.edu.