PhD in English in Irvine United States | University of California Irvine

UCI's English Ph.D. program ranks as the nation's top department for literary and critical theory (US News and World Report). Faculty research and teaching spans diverse fields, historical eras, and methodological perspectives. Our alumni have secured faculty positions at prestigious institutions nationwide, such as the University of Michigan, Tulane, Rice, Clemson, BYU, and Connecticut College in recent years.

Numerous PhD faculty and students engage in collaborative, interdisciplinary research clusters and reading groups. Currently active groups feature The Center for Early Cultures, the Culture and Capital Center, Medieval Devysings, Poetics History Theory, the Queer Theory Reading Group, and the Rhetoric Reading Group. The Ph.D. program offers flexibility for students to tailor their studies around personal intellectual pursuits. Participants may enroll in seminars across other departments and earn interdisciplinary certificates in areas including Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latin American Studies, and Medica