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about graduate programs for advanced study.
This listing of graduate programs specializing in Philosophy and Literature (including Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, etc.) is organized into two sections. The first includes information on departments and programs provided by IAPL members. The second includes contact information for a variety of programs known for their strength in the study of Philosophy and Literature.
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Program Information Submitted by Members
United States and Canada
City University of New York
Ph.D. in French
Program Description:
The Ph.D. Program in French at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York offers an innovative combination of traditional training in French and Francophone Literatures with highly progressive interdisciplinary curricular options. While specializing in one of the traditional literary periods, our graduate students are offered the possibility of enriching their professional and academic dossier with the option that would best suit their particular interests.
These options, namely Translation Studies, Comparative Studies, Cultural Studies, International Human Rights in the French-Speaking World, and Performance Studies, draw from a wide array of disciplines with courses readily available either within our own program or in the many other prestigious programs of The Graduate Center. In addition, students are strongly encouraged to opt for a multidisciplinary Certificate, which they can fulfill at the Graduate Center. These include: American Studies, Film Studies, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, Women’s Studies. Combined with the students’ literary interests and interdisciplinary options, these certificates are valuable assets to ensure success with their future job search in an ever-increasingly competitive market.
Web: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/program/index.html
Submitted / Updated: 2006
Columbia University
Department of English, Program in Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
New York, NY 10027
Principle Faculty: Michael Kelly (Philosophy: Aesthetics from Kant to Derrida)
Gayatri Spivak (Comparative Literature: Poststructuralism, Marxism)
Contact information:
Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/
e-mail: gcs4@columbia.edu
phone: 212-854-6416
fax: 212-854-6465
information provided by: Gayatri Spivak
Cornell University
Department of Comparative Literature, Doctoral Program
Ithaca, NY
Program Description:
Provides a broad range of courses in European as well as non-European Literatures. The departmental offerings reflect current interdisciplinary approaches to literary study: hermeneutics, semiotics, deconstruction, cultural criticism, marxism, reception aesthetics, feminism, and psychoanalysis.
Program Director: Professor William Kennedy
Contact information:
Web: www.cornell.edu
e-mail: spc22@cornell.edu
information provided by: Sean Connolly
DePaul University
Department of Philosophy, M.A. and Ph.D. Programs
1150 W. Fullerton Ave., 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60614
Description:
DePaul University's Graduate Programs in Philosophy offer students the opportunity to study the history of philosophy from a broad. though not exclusively, European perspective and to work with some of the leading scholars in contemporary Continental thought, German Idealism, social and political theory, and ethics. Highly innovative M.A. and Ph.D. programs are designed for students who are interested in reading the history of philosophy extending from early Greek thought, through Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant, to more contemporary thinkers such as Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Irigary and Derrida. While focusing on 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy and the historical sources of these movements, students are provided with the necessary background to become converstant with other philosophical traditions and styles.
Program Director: Professor Michael Naas
Contact information:
Web: n/a
e-mail: mnaas@wppost.depaul.edu
phone: 773-325-7265
fax: 773-325-7268
information provided by: Peg Birmingham, Department Chair
George Washington University
Human Sciences, Graduate Program
80122nd St. NW, Ste. 412
Washington, D.C. 20052
Description:
Characterized by rigorous interdisciplinary methodologies, the human sciences investigate how systems of meaning and knowledge are produced, disseminated, and utilized throughout time. Our field of inquiry is not art, literature, culture, or religious or epistemological systems, but the interactions and relations of these disciplines that are too often treated as discrete.
Program Director: Professor Gail Weiss
Contact information:
Web: www.gwu.edu/~humsci
e-mail: hmsc@gwu.edu
phone: 202-994-6134
fax: 202-994-7034
information provided by: Gail Weiss
Hebrew College
Hebrew and Jewish Literature
Program Director: Professor G. Rampas Rauh
Contact information:
Web: n/a
e-mail: graduate@lynx.neu.edu
phone: 617-278-4945
fax: 617-738-7098
information provided by: G. Rampas Rauh
Purdue University
Program in Comparative Literature, M.A. and Ph.D.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Program Director: Professor John T. Kirby
Web: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/complit/
information provided by: Beate I. Allert
Purdue University
Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education, Room 1289
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098
Ph.D. Program in Philosophy and Literature
Program Director: Professor Charlene Seigfried
Contact information:
Web: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/phil-lit/
e-mail: philosophy@sla.purdue.edu
phone: 765-494-4275
fax: 765-496-1616
Joint Ph.D. in Communication and Philosophy
Web: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/communication//html/grad/prospective/inter_programs.htm
information provided by: Martin Beck Matustík
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York 11794 USA
Department of Philosophy, M.A. (Philosophy and the Arts), Ph.D. in Philosophy
Doctoral Program Director: Jeffrey Edwards ; M.A. Program Directors: Eduardo Mendieta and Edward S. Casey
Advanced Graduate Certificate in Art and Philosophy (supplements enrollment in a Ph.D. Program at Stony Brook)
Program Director: Hugh J. Silverman
Deparment of Comparative and Cultural Studies, M.A., Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), Ph.D. (Cultural Studies)
Program Director: Ira Livingston
Department of Art, M.A., Ph.D. (Art History and Criticism) ; MFA (Studio Art)
Program Director: Michelle Bogart
Submitted / Updated: 2006
Universite de Montreal
Department de litterature comparee, Ph.D. en litterature
program option: Theorie et epistemologie de la literature
C. P. 6128, Succ. "Centre-ville"
Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7
Program Director: Professor Amaryll Chanady
Description:
Offering theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to literature, other forms of discourse, and cultural practices in general. Seminars taught in French, although thesis may be written in other languages.
Contact Information:
Web: http://www.fas.umontreal.ca
e-mail: beaufayn@magellan.umontreal.ca
phone: (514) 343-7255
fax: (514) 343-2211
information submitted by: Amaryll Chanady
University of California at Irvine
Department of Comparative Literature
The Ph.D. Comparative Literature at UC Irvine features internationally renowned permanent and visiting faculty and rich offerings in critical theory, postcolonial studies, and modern culture.
Web: www.humanities.uci.edu/complit
Contact: Arielle Read, Graduate Program Administrator, aaread@uci.edu
Submitted / Updated: 2006
University of New Mexico
Department of Philosophy, M.A. and Ph.D. Programs
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Description:
The Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico has strengths in the following areas: History of Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Art and Literature, Philosophy of Religion, History of Analytic Philosophy, Asian Philosophy. Students can expect a high degree of personal attention and interaction with the faculty.
Program Director: Professor A. F. Schueler
Contact information:
Web: http://www.unm.edu/~thinker
e-mail: trishara@unm.edu
phone: (505) 277-2405
fax: (505) 277-6362
information provided by: A. F. Schueler, Department Chair
University of Western Ontario
Department of English, English Language and Literature
Program in Theory and Criticism, M.A.
Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism
London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
Contact Information:
Web: www.uwo.ca/english
e-mail: n/a
Phone: (519) 661-2111, Ex. 5793
Fax: (519) 661-3776
information provided by: Leon Surette
Europe
Middlesex University
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
M.A. Program in Modern European Philosophy; Aesthetics and Art Theory
Tottenham Campus, White Hart Lane
London N17 8HR
Program Director: Professor Peter Osborne
Contact information:
Web: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/CRMEP/
e-mail: osborne@mdx..ac.uk
phone: 44-181-362-5000
fax: 44-181-362-6652
information provided by: J.L. Dronsfield
Queen's University of Belfast
Department of English, Program in Modern Literary Studies
2 University Square
Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN
Description:
The M.A. in Modern Literary Studies strives to open up for discussion and research a wide range of modern literature and cultural criticism. The historical range of "the modern" is taken broadly to include post-Renaissance literary developments within the Anglophone world. British, North American, Caribbean and Commonwealth writing in English from the mid-eighteenth century to the present is read in relation to canonicity, gender, ethnicity, modernity, modernism, ideology-critique, theory-formation, colonialism, post-colonialism, postmodernity and postmodernism.
Program Director: Professor Brian Caraher
Contact information:
Web: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/
e-mail: BCARAHER@clio.arts.qub.ac.uk
phone: 44-1232-335103/4
fax: 44-1232-314615
information provided by: Brian Caraher
Universite Europeenne de Recherche
Transformativism - Program
1 Rue Descartes
Paris 75005 France
Program Director: Jean-Pierre Faye (President)
Contact Information:
Web: n/a
e-mail: n/a
phone: 01-47-05-18-03
fax: 01-47-05-18-03
information submitted by: Jean-Pierre Faye
Australia and New Zealand
University of Auckland
Department of Comparative Literature, M.A. and Ph.D. Programs
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
Description:
The 2-year M.A. in Comparative Literature includes study of two literatures in original language (French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Maori, Latin, Greek), courses in comparative literature methodology, and a comparative thesis. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature by thesis.
Program Director: Professor Michael Hanne
Contact information:
Web: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/index.cfm?S=S_COMPLIT
e-mail: m.hanne@auckland.ac.nz
phone: 64-9-3737-599
fax: 64-9-308-2348
information provided by: Michael Hanne
Additional Program Listing
(we invite IAPL members to update these listings)
United States and Canada
Duke University
Graduate Program in Literature, Ph.D.
Durham, NC 27708
Contact: http://www.duke.edu/literature/
George Mason University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Department of Cultural Studies, Ph.D. Program
Fairfax, VA 22030
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies.
Contact: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/cultural/
The Johns Hopkins University
Department of German, M.A. and Ph.D.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Contact: http://www.jhu.edu/~german/
Kansas State University
Department of English; M.A. program in Cultural Studies
Manhattan, KS
http://www.k-state.edu/english/programs/culturalstudies.html
Marquette University
Department of Philosophy, M.A. and Ph.D.
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Contact: http://www.mu.edu/phil/pages/grad.html
Northwestern University
Comparative Literary Studies, Ph.D.
Comparative Literary Studies (CLS) is unique among humanistic disciplines in that it has no subject-matter that can be predetermined. As its name indicates, its area of study encompasses “literature,” but unlike other literary disciplines the objects it investigates are not situated in any one “national” tradition or any one “natural” language. Rather, its boundary is defined by the plurality and diversity of differing cultural and linguistic traditions. In respect to such differences, the “comparisons” pursued in CLS do not primarily strive to establish “parity” between what is being compared, but rather explore problems that develop across different language-traditions and emerge out of their interaction.
Program Co-Directors,
Sam Weber sam (at) northwestern.edu
Peter Fenves p-fenves (at) northwestern.edu
Program Assistant,
Apostolos Vasilakis a-vasilakis (at) northwestern.edu
Web: http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/complit/
Department of Philosophy, Ph.D. Program
Contact: http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/
Department of French, Ph.D. Program
Evanston, IL 60208
Contact: http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/
Princeton University
Department of Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Program
Princeton, NJ 08544
Contact: http://www.princeton.edu/~complit/
Rutgers University
Department of French, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D. Programs
New Brunswick, NJ
Contact: http://french.rutgers.edu/
San Francisco State University
Humanities Department, M.A.
San Francisco, CA 94132
Contact: www.sfsu.edu/
Stanford University
Department of Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Program
Stanford, CA 94305
Contact: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DLCL/
State University of New York at Binghamton
Department of Philosophy
Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, M.A. and Ph.D.
Department of Comparative Literature
Program in Philosophy, Literature, and Theory of Criticism
Binghamton, NY 13902
Contact: www.binghamton.edu/
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Comparative Literature; M.A. Ph.D.
Buffalo , NY
http://cas.buffalo.edu/complit/index.shtml
Department of English
Poetics Program, M.A. and Ph.D.
Buffalo, NY
Contact: www.buffalo.edu/
University of California , Berkeley
Department of Rhetoric; Ph.D.
Berkeley , CA
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/graduate.html
University of California at Irvine
Department of Drama / Interdisciplinary Studies, M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D.
Irvine, CA 92697
Contact: www.uci.edu/
University of California, Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness Program; Ph.D.
Santa Cruz, CA
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/histcon/HisCon.html
University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign
Department of English, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Graduate Certificate.
Urbana-Champaign , IL
http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society; Ph.D.
Minneapolis/St. Paul MN
http://cscl.cla.umn.edu/grad/csds/index.htm
University of Notre Dame
Department of English, Ph.D. with concentration in Literature and Continental Philosophy
Contact: www.nd.edu/~philnlit
University of Pennsylvania
Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Ph.D. Program
Phliadelphia, PA
Contact: www.upenn.edu
University of Southern California
School of Cinema-Television, Program in Critical Studies; M.A. Ph.D.
Los Angeles , CA
http://www-cntv.usc.edu/academic_programs/critical_studies/academic-critical-home.cfm
University of Virginia
Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, M.A. and Ph.D.
Charlottesville, VA
Contact: www.virginia.edu/
University of Washington
Graduate Program in Critical Theory
Seattle, WA
Ph.D. in conjunction with various departments.
Contact: www.washington.edu/
Vanderbilt University
Department of Comparative Literature; PhD. Minor in Philosophy and Literature
Nashville , TN
http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/complit/Phil/lit
York University
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, M.A. and Ph.D
Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3
Contact: www.yorku.ca
Europe
Katholike Universiteit Leuven (BE)
Institute of Philosophy
Leuven, Belgium
Contact: www.kuleuven.ac.be/kuleuven/
University of Sussex (UK)
MA in Aesthetics
"The MA in Aesthetics provides an advanced programme of study for those particularly interested in the philosophy of art and literature."
Contact: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/philosophy/1-2-6-12.html
University of Tuebingen (DE)
Deutsches Seminar, Neuphilologie
Comparatistik
Tubingen, Germany
Contact: www.uni-tuebingen.de
University of Warwick
Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature
Coventry, England CV4 7AL
Special one-year M.A. in Philosophy and Literature; multi-departmental, specialist doctoral programme associated with the Centre.
Contact: pyrbo@titanic.csv.warwick.ac.uk
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/phillit/
Australia and New Zealand
University of Sydney
School of Philosophy
Department of General Philosophy
Sydney, Australia