Program Overview
The PhD programs in French and Francophone Studies and Italian Studies at the Department of French and Italian offer direct admission to students with advanced proficiency in French or Italian. The program emphasizes critical inquiry, knowledge sharing, and collaboration in a supportive and inclusive environment. Students benefit from the university's extensive resources, including a top-notch library system and interdisciplinary programs, and can explore research topics supported by the department's unique clusters and affiliated faculty.
Program Outline
Teaching:
The Department of French and Italian offers direct-admit PhD programs in French and Francophone Studies and Italian Studies. We seek intellectually curious students with advanced proficiency in French or Italian who are driven to investigate their own answers to critical questions, who aspire to share the knowledge they accrue with others, who want to work in a cooperative and inclusive environment with collegial faculty and peers, who are excited by the prospect of living in a fast-growing, multicultural city at once vast in scope and small-town in feel, who are attracted to a fantastic library system and a wide range of interdisciplinary programs and centers at one of North America’s top research universities, whose interests link up with one or more of the unique clusters of research topics and directions to which we can provide the strongest support with our exciting departmental and university-wide resources, and an extensive web of affiliated faculty.
