Ph.D. in English Literature

at Duquesne University

The Ph.D. program in English literature at Duquesne University will provide you with comprehensive training in advanced literary research and postsecondary teaching of writing and literature. In our small department, you’ll work closely with faculty mentors as you prepare to be a teacher-scholar or for a career outside of academia.

While the department supports doctoral students in all fields and periods of literary and cultural studies, you’ll find that we have particular strengths in women's and gender studies, poetry and poetics, modernist studies and American literary studies. Other current areas of scholarly and teaching activity you’ll explore include narrative studies, environmental literature and ecocriticism, performance studies, 19th-century literary studies, religion and literature, print culture and book history, transatlantic/world literature and digital humanities.