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Ph.D. French, Graduate Center, CUNY

Ph.D. French, Graduate Center, CUNY

Publié le par Marc Escola (Source : Maxime Blanchard)

Every year, the Ph.D. Program in French at The Graduate Center brings in a very small, tight-knit cohort of four applicants who receive a $ 26,128 fellowship for five years, tuition waiver and health insurance. In exchange they teach one course per semester in their second, third and fourth year at one of CUNY senior colleges. In their fifth year, students serve as writing fellows. (More information at http://www.gc.cuny.edu/french.)

Outside reviewers have rated our program as one of the finest and most innovative in the USA, with such features as a concentration in Human Rights in the Francophone reach. All our candidates are highly trained as teachers in the foreign language classroom. The Program both educates generalists who can teach a broad array of courses, and specialists in a wide range of periods and perspectives, from medieval to gender/queer theory, visual cultures and text, postcolonial and francophone studies and more. Among recent dissertations defended, I might mention “La Symbolique païenne dans l'oeuvre de René Depestre,” “Collaboration Revisited: The Performative Art of Claude Cahun and Hannah Weiner”, “Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939),” 2016 “Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Third Space of Contemporary Chinese-Francophone Writers,” or “Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative.” 

Our recent alumni hold teaching positions at Bennington College, Saint John’s University, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Williams College. Past alumni are faculty members at Swarthmore College, Manhattanville, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and within the CUNY system. Other alumni venture outside of Academia, working for instance in university administration, in the arts, or for a consulting firm. 

Our multidisciplinary Program attracts international students from Cameroon, Québec, France, England, Haiti, India, Ivory Coast, who do not necessarily have a narrowly defined literary background. Among our recent successful candidates, we count two art historians, two professional translators, two philosophers, a journalist, and a political scientist. The Program is a vibrant intellectual community that benefits from the cultural work of the Henri Peyre French Institute (http://henripeyrefi.ws.gc.cuny.edu) and the diverse, state-of-the-art research environment of the Graduate Center, a national leader in the Humanities and in the promotion of the Digital Humanities. 

Qualified students are encouraged to apply.

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