项目介绍

2022年9月27日

The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Program in French Studies offers a five-year Ph.D. program.  All students admitted to the program are awarded full financial support through the University’s Benjamin Franklin Fellowships, including summer funding.  The overarching goal of the program is to train students both for productive scholarship and for effective college or university teaching. We have an outstanding faculty committed to scholarly excellence and we have an impressive record in placing candidates on the job market.

In addition to our faculty having interest in a broad range of centuries, individual expertise include musicology, popular culture, film noir, fashion, travel writing, poetry, anthropology, gender, postcolonial studies, cultural history, narratology, and history of the book. As a result of these interests, students have been able to work on creative dissertation topics. For titles of dissertations recently defended and in progress, click here.

Interdisciplinary Study

Interdisciplinary study is encouraged through participation in the wide range of seminars, lectures, and colloquia sponsored by the various Graduate Groups and affiliated research institutes and centers at Penn. Students may complement their studies with up to four courses outside the French section by earning a certificate in addition to the Ph.D. Certificate programs are available in the areas of Women and Gender  Studies, Cinema Studies, African Studies, and Urban Studies. Earning a certificate indicates a specialty in one of the aforementioned areas, but is not required as part of the student’s course of study.

Graduate students in French also participate in The Penn Humanities Forum which also provides a venue for doctoral students to interact with colleagues from across the disciplines.

In addition to being within a 100 mile radius to more than a dozen  institutions (such as Temple, Drexel, Haverford, Swathmore, Bryn Mawr, Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia, New York University, City University of New York, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and the University of Delaware), The University of Pennsylvania enjoys reciprocal agreements with several other nearby institutions including Princeton and Columbia which allow students to complete a number of courses there while enrolled in a graduate program at Penn. Locally, the University’s location in Philadelphia provides easy access to the social and cultural resources of a dynamic and affordable metropolitan center.