哈佛大学的凯尔特语言文学系是北美唯一的一个系。该系提供几种凯尔特语语言和传统的培训，我们的博士学位课程要求学生至少掌握两种早期（中世纪）形式的凯尔特语（爱尔兰语和威尔士语），以及至少一种现代形式的语言。该计划旨在为博士候选人提供有关凯尔特研究领域，其历史，理论以及许多不同分支的广泛知识。我们鼓励学生在讲凯尔特语的土地的历史和物质文化的背景下研究凯尔特文学和口述传统。该系致力于跨学科研究，并鼓励博士生在系外进行课程学习。我们的许多学生都完成了其他系或课程的中学领域，例如中世纪研究或比较文学。我们部门完成博士
The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard is the only one of its kind in North America. The department offers training in the languages and traditions of several Celtic languages, and our PhD program requires that students master at least two Celtic languagesIrish and Welshin their early (medieval) forms and at least one in its modern form. The program aims to provide PhD candidates with a broad knowledge of the field of Celtic studies, its history, theory, and many diverse branches. We encourage our students to situate their study of Celtic literatures and oral traditions in the context of the history and material culture of the Celtic-speaking lands. The department is committed to interdisciplinary study and encourages PhD students to do coursework outside the department. Many of our students complete Secondary Fields in other departments or programs, such as Medieval Studies or Comparative Literature. The typical time to completion of the PhD in our department is six years. Our department is small and shares a strong sense of intellectual community. Students work closely with faculty and with one another, not only in courses but in independent Reading and Research modules, advising meetings, informal reading and conversation groups, and the GSAS Celtic Studies Research and Conference Workshop. The annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, organized by the third-year PhD students with the assistance of the second-year students and the department administrator and faculty, is a three-day international conference that brings scholars from all over the world to discuss their research in many different branches of Celtic studies. Our program is also enriched by the contribution of speakers in the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Celtic Literatures and Culture.