Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Romance Studies - Italian Studies 24 months PHD Program By Duke University |Top Universities

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Romance Studies - Italian Studies

Program Duration

24 monthsProgram duration

Main Subject Area

Area StudiesMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Area Studies

Study Level

PHD

Graduate training for the PhD in Romance Studies at Duke University combines work in one or more languages taught in the department (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Haitian Creole) with a broad methodological formation in literary and cultural analysis, critical theory, visual studies, and history. Our aim is to provide a combination of depth of knowledge in particular fields with a breadth of intellectual engagement and dialogue. We strongly encourage students to draw broadly on the strength of the faculty within Romance Studies as well as to work with faculty in other departments. The training involves course work, the preparation of portfolios for the Preliminary Examination (Portfolio Exam), and participation in departmental workshops as well as in the variety of opportunities available at Duke University. These include involvement in the Franklin Humanities Institute’s innovative Humanities Labs, participation in graduate working groups sponsored by the Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and numerous other units at Duke. Our students also are nominated for a variety of Duke graduate and teaching fellowships, and participate in annually offered inter-institutional exchanges and projects with universities in the U.S. and abroad. The PhD track in Italian Studies emphasizing Italian literature and culture from a solid historical and theoretical perspective. Our program takes advantage of five regular-rank professors of Italian from the Department of Romance Studies, and of the affiliated faculty in departments and programs such as Art History, Cultural Anthropology, English, Film/Video/Digital Studies, History, International Comparative Area Studies, Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies and Theater Studies. Flexible in design, a student's individual course of study is developed in close and regular consultation with members of the faculty in order to provide a meaningful curriculum that responds to a student's particular interests and strengths, while preparing the student in all the relevant and necessary fields of Italian Studies. The Duke Difference The Duke Department of Romance Studies has a nationally and internationally recognized faculty of specialists in many fields and critical methods. The Duke learning environment includes exceptional library and computer facilities in the humanities, including the Franklin Humanities Institute and the nearby National Humanities Center, which organize many events of relevance for scholars of Italian Studies. Perkins Library, one of the nation's major research libraries, houses among others the Guido Mazzoni Collection, which comprises over 49,000 rare and hard-to-find Italian pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, small volumes, librettos, epithalamia, and broadsides from the late Sixteenth century to 1943. Also regularly accessible to our students are the resources of, as well as the classes offered by, the nearby Italian Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, listed here, and those available at our affiliated program at the University of Bologna.

Program overview

Main Subject

Area Studies

Study Level

PHD

Graduate training for the PhD in Romance Studies at Duke University combines work in one or more languages taught in the department (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Haitian Creole) with a broad methodological formation in literary and cultural analysis, critical theory, visual studies, and history. Our aim is to provide a combination of depth of knowledge in particular fields with a breadth of intellectual engagement and dialogue. We strongly encourage students to draw broadly on the strength of the faculty within Romance Studies as well as to work with faculty in other departments. The training involves course work, the preparation of portfolios for the Preliminary Examination (Portfolio Exam), and participation in departmental workshops as well as in the variety of opportunities available at Duke University. These include involvement in the Franklin Humanities Institute’s innovative Humanities Labs, participation in graduate working groups sponsored by the Humanities Institute, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and numerous other units at Duke. Our students also are nominated for a variety of Duke graduate and teaching fellowships, and participate in annually offered inter-institutional exchanges and projects with universities in the U.S. and abroad. The PhD track in Italian Studies emphasizing Italian literature and culture from a solid historical and theoretical perspective. Our program takes advantage of five regular-rank professors of Italian from the Department of Romance Studies, and of the affiliated faculty in departments and programs such as Art History, Cultural Anthropology, English, Film/Video/Digital Studies, History, International Comparative Area Studies, Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies and Theater Studies. Flexible in design, a student's individual course of study is developed in close and regular consultation with members of the faculty in order to provide a meaningful curriculum that responds to a student's particular interests and strengths, while preparing the student in all the relevant and necessary fields of Italian Studies. The Duke Difference The Duke Department of Romance Studies has a nationally and internationally recognized faculty of specialists in many fields and critical methods. The Duke learning environment includes exceptional library and computer facilities in the humanities, including the Franklin Humanities Institute and the nearby National Humanities Center, which organize many events of relevance for scholars of Italian Studies. Perkins Library, one of the nation's major research libraries, houses among others the Guido Mazzoni Collection, which comprises over 49,000 rare and hard-to-find Italian pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, small volumes, librettos, epithalamia, and broadsides from the late Sixteenth century to 1943. Also regularly accessible to our students are the resources of, as well as the classes offered by, the nearby Italian Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, listed here, and those available at our affiliated program at the University of Bologna.

Admission Requirements

7+
Other English language requirements : TOEFL with a paper-based score of 577.

2 Years
Jan-2000

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