French
Degree: PhD
Objectives: The French department offers a graduate program with a strong critical, cultural, and historical orientation. In addition to their respective specialties in French and Francophone literature, the faculty pursues research in related disciplines such as philosophy, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, intellectual history, and post-colonial studies. Such a cross-disciplinary approach to literature is necessitated by both the divergence of disciplines (the multiplication and diversification of the various fields of knowledge and the increasing specialization of the languages developed in their study), and their tendency to converge.
Additional Information: In addition to the minimum requirements for the doctoral degree set by the Graduate School, a student is expected, with the approval of his or her advisor, to take courses and engage in independent studies leading to: a comprehensive knowledge of the whole body of French literature; the capacity to use specific critical methods; a mastery of the chosen field of concentration; and a mastery of the language itself.
Program Application Deadline: January 3, 2008
Faculty: 9
Students: In residence 27; average in entering class 4
Mailing Address:
Emory University
Department of French
405N Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 404.727.6431
Fax: +1 404.727.4579
Email: lhartne@emory.edu
