联合博士学位 法语研究和法语专业课程是为有兴趣在与他们的社会，文化和政治背景紧密相关的文学文本的历史和分析研究方面发展兴趣的学生而设计的。它为学生提供了在法文各系教授文学和文明课程的准备，并为他们提供了融合两者的学术专长。该联合计划将文学分析方面的强大培训与历史学家和社会科学家提供的对法文，欧洲和法语国家的研究进行大量接触。申请该计划的学生应具有法文文学，历史和社会科学背景。该课程涵盖了自法文大革命以来的法文政治，社会，文化和文学，尽管学生在这段时间内发展了较窄的研究专业。
The joint Ph.D. Program in French Studies and French allows students to blend rigorous training in literary analysis with a broad, multi-disciplinary exploration of French and Francophone worlds from the French Revolution to the present. Housed at both the Institute of French Studies and the department of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, students chart their own course between both units, exploring ideas and methods while devising specific research projects with a wide array of faculty and graduate students. These opportunities — as well as a slate of courses and events conducted in both English and French — make our program truly unique in the field. The joint program prepares students to teach both literature and history or the social sciences in French departments, and gives them the scholarly expertise to integrate the two. From year 1, students attend advanced seminars in literary criticism, conduct original research, and take courses in other disciplines of their choice, including cinema, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and gender studies. Working closely with advisors at the IFS and the French department, they explore new ideas while working toward a dissertation prospectus (to which they turn in earnest in year 3). In the French department, students take courses with faculty whose domains of expertise include queer and feminist theory, history of the body and emotions, environmental humanities, political and critical theory, theory of the novel, history in fiction, and cinema. At the IFS, they delve deep into French and Francophone history and social sciences while working with faculty whose research revolves around the Caribbean and post-colonial circulations, migration, the politics of place and memory, ethnography, race and identity in France, the Maghreb, West Africa, family history, and new modes of historical writing.