The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Program in French and Francophone Studies The Department of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University is recruiting outstanding candidates for advanced study leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Since our program is selective, we are able to provide all of our full-time students with generous financial support and full tuition grants. We welcome applicants from historically underrepresented minorities, for whom additional internal fellowships are often available. Penn State’s French and Francophone Studies graduate program is unique for its long-established Ph.D. specializations in Civilization and Literature with an interdisciplinary orientation that fosters innovative approaches to a broad variety of objects of study. Faculty expertise spans gender studies and women’s history, colonial history and Francophone studies, linguistics, early modern studies, theatre and film studies, material culture and aesthetics, cultural theory, anthropology, popular and media cultures, and Jewish studies. We offer, as well, a distinctive dual degree in French and Women’s Studies (a top-ranked department nationally), while plans for a second dual degree, in French and African Studies, will soon be finalized. Our students receive extensive pedagogical training and teach a wide range of courses in language, literature, culture and linguistics at all undergraduate levels. With eighteen graduate students in residence and fourteen full-time faculty members, each student receives individual attention and consistent intellectual and professional mentoring. As a result, the Department has been very successful with job placement and graduate student grantsmanship. Institutions in which our graduates hold tenured positions include Indiana University, the University of Louisville, Dickinson College, Hamilton College, and the College of William & Mary. Each year the program, along with partnering departments across the university, welcomes distinguished scholars who contribute to the intellectual diversity of Penn State’s academic culture. Grants to support our students’ conference travel and dissertation research are available through a variety of internal sources, including Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. In addition, the Department offers the opportunity to participate in year-long graduate exchange programs with the Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II) and the Université Lumière Lyon 2. Finally, students in FFS benefit from numerous initiatives, academic programs, and centers within Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, including the Humanities in a Digital Age initiative, Graduate Minor in Social Thought, Committee for Early Modern Studies, Centers for Global Studies and for Democratic Deliberation, and the Rock Ethics Institute. Penn State is recognized as a top-ranked institution of higher education and research, and is a member of the Association of American Universities, American Research Association, Universities Research Association, Big Ten Conference and World University Network. Penn State’s libraries are ranked among the top public libraries in the United States, and benefit from a generous endowment in the areas of French and Francophone Studies. For further information on the Department of French and Francophone Studies, its graduate program, and the application procedure, please visit our website at french.psu.eduor contact Willa Z. Silverman, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of French and Jewish Studies, at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:30:16 +0000
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