The PhD in French at UVA is a comprehensive and research-driven program that prepares students for academic leadership in literary and cultural studies. The program emphasizes comparative literature, philosophy, critical theory, and global Francophone perspectives. Students engage in original research, publish in top journals, and often teach undergraduate French language and literature courses.
Comparative study of African and Caribbean Francophone postcolonial literature
Surrealism and resistance literature during Vichy France
Translating trauma in Algerian war narratives
French literature and the philosophy of memory
Multilingualism and hybridity in Haitian poetry
French feminist theory in contemporary literary analysis
Colonial pedagogy and language acquisition in Francophone Africa
Digital curation of underrepresented French voices
Semiotics and narrative structure in Camus’ works
The legacy of colonial language ideologies in modern Francophone education
Philological reconstruction of medieval Occitan poetry
Intersectionality in modern French women’s autobiography
Sociolinguistic evolution of regional dialects in France
Migration, exile, and border discourse in 21st-century Francophone novels
Structuralist vs. post-structuralist approaches to narrative
Produce original research in French and Francophone studies through UVA’s globally engaged PhD program.
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