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The PhD Program in French focuses on literary and cultural production from throughout the French-speaking world and provides students with a strong theoretical background. Historically dedicated to training students in the various periods, genres, and media of cultural production in French, the program is also distinguished by its pioneering commitment to a broadly inclusive conception of the field of French and Francophone literatures and cultures, as well as its sustained engagement with developments in literary theory, philosophy, and critical thought that have indelibly impacted humanities scholarship of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The program aims to develop students’ metacritical perspectives through exposure to the range of theoretical and methodological approaches represented by our faculty. These include poststructuralist, postmodern, psychoanalytic, cultural historical, postcolonial, feminist, visual arts, gender studies, and historical materialist perspectives, as well as film and media theories. Read more...
Learn about the four-year BA/MA program in French for outstanding undergraduate majors