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PhD in English

4 Years On Campus Phd Program

University of Pittsburgh

Program Overview

PhD students typically base their work in Composition/Rhetoric, Film Studies, or Literature, but the department fosters interdisciplinary work that draws on more than one program. The department has a strong national reputation in composition and literacy studies, children s literature, global film studies, and cultural theory. Based in the LiteratureProgram but including faculty members and PhD students across programs are four focal areas that provide curricular and extracurricular support for student work: Children s Literature and Childhood Studies; Genealogies of Modernity; Media and Material Practices; and Race, Politics, and Empire.

Program Key Stats

$37830 (Annual cost)



55 %

Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Official transcripts of all previous undergraduate and graduate work, Statement of purpose, Three letters of recommendation, Sample of written work, Overall review of academic reports

Career Options

  • English Literature majors and minors might become writers
  • critics or English teachers
  • but they also go into advertising
  • publishing
  • law
  • medicine
  • media
  • business
  • public relations
  • government
  • social work
  • communication
  • or take any number of other paths

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