Doctor's degree French/Francophone Studies - Northwestern University

Doctor's degree French/Francophone Studies from Northwestern University is a Campus Ph.D Language degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. 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. The research and teaching of our combined faculty exhibits particular strength in the areas of twentieth-century literature and contemporary theory (Christopher Bush, Scott Durham, Michal Ginsburg, Nasrin Qader, Domietta Torlasco, Sam Weber, Jane Winston); film and visual culture across periods (Christopher Bush, Scott Durham, Bernadette Fort, Michal Ginsburg, Marco Ruffini, Domietta Torlasco, Jane Winston); Francophone studies (Christopher Bush, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Doris Garraway, Nasrin Qader, Jane Winston); seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies (Bernadette Fort, Doris Garraway, Sylvie Romanowski); and gender studies (Bernadette Fort, Bill Paden, Sylvie Romanowski, Jane Winston). View more details on Northwestern University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Language courses.