Literary Studies Ph.D

The Doctoral School of Literary Studies at Eotvos Lorand University offers a rigorous 3-year doctoral program in literary studies that provides students with the opportunity to acquire advanced research methodologies and expertise in higher education. The program is unique in its multidisciplinary approach, combining coursework from fields such as literary theory, comparative literature, Hungarian and European renaissance, baroque, enlightenment, Romanticism, modernism, postmodernism, library studies, folklore and literature of Uralic peoples, English and American literature and culture, French literature, Portuguese literatures: history of prose fiction, Italian literary and cultural studies, textual analysis of contemporary Latin-American fiction writers’ works and precedents. Upon successful completion of this program graduates will have obtained a deep understanding of both the theory and practice of literary studies. With an ever-increasing number of career opportunities available for those with an advanced degree in this field; graduates can look forward to making meaningful contributions towards promoting a better understanding of social