项目介绍

2022年10月10日

Candidacy for the Ph.D. degree is contingent on the fulfillment of all M.Phil. requirements and approval of the proposed dissertation.

Required courses: Students, if they have not done so prior to completion of the M.Phil. degree, should register for one of the following courses: ITAL GR9102. Research in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature or ITAL GR9103. Research in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Students register for this course, which may be taken for R credit, during the semester when they prepare the dissertation proposal (prospectus) under the supervision of a potential sponsor.

Dissertation: No later than three months after successful completion of the M.Phil. degree, the student submits the dissertation prospectus (no more than ten pages, plus annotated bibliography), to be approved at a colloquium by a committee of three faculty members including the sponsor and second reader from the department. The dissertation is to be prepared, defended, and deposited according to the regulations of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.