PhD International Letters and Cultures

The PhD program in international letters and cultures provides research and training that is linguistically well-grounded, historically and culturally informed, and methodologically transdisciplinary. Central to the program is the critical inquiry of primary documents from a variety of media across multiple languages, aiming at a deep understanding of the development of cultures through history. Students in the program must focus on research questions and themes that cannot be fully explored within the traditional disciplinary boundaries. The program fosters dynamic scholarly collaboration across disciplines in order to engage in the production of knowledge crucial to understanding transnational and transcultural phenomena from antiquity to the present.