PhD in English Literature in Pittsburgh United States | Duquesne University

Duquesne University's English Literature Ph.D. program offers thorough preparation in sophisticated literary analysis and college-level instruction in writing and literature. Within our intimate academic community, you'll receive personalized guidance from faculty as you develop into a scholar-educator or prepare for non-academic professional paths. While supporting doctoral candidates across all literary eras and cultural studies, our department specializes in gender and women's studies, poetic theory, modernist scholarship, and American literature. Additional research and teaching focuses encompass storytelling analysis, ecological literature and criticism, performance theory, Victorian-era studies, religious literary traditions, publishing history, global literary connections, and digital approaches to humanities.