PhD program in French & Francophone Studies at Vanderbilt University

The PhD program in French & Francophone Studies at Vanderbilt University

The PhD program in French & Francophone Studies at Vanderbilt offers students a five-year program of study with a guaranteed minimum funding package of $25,000 per year with opportunities for additional funding through competitive fellowships and awards.  Funding is also available for conference travel and summer research.  Students are encouraged to explore abundant resources available through the Center for Teaching, the Robert-Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Center for Second Language Studies. 

With renowned scholars in the traditional fields of French studies--from medieval to contemporary feminisms--the Department of French and Italian is also one of the most interdisciplinary departments at Vanderbilt, with specialists in cinema, art and photography, Jewish studies, African, Maghreban and Caribbean literature and culture, as well as religion and migration studies.  Further opportunities for interdisciplinary work are available through graduate certificates offered by the Center for Second Language Studies as well as by programs such as the Center for Latin American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, African American & Diaspora Studies, the Center for Digital Humanities and the newly-created joint PhD program in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice. 

Located in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt was ranked no. 14 among national universities in the 2018 US News and World Report rankings.  

For questions about the graduate work in French at Vanderbilt, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller at n.debrau@vanderbilt.edu or visit our webpage: https://as.vanderbilt.edu/french-italian/graduate-studies/