Doctor's degree in Literary and Cultural at Carnegie Mellon University

 

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Doctor's Degree in Literary and Cultural at Carnegie Mellon University

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Doctor's degree
Literary and Cultural

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The PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies was among the first of its kind in the U.S. As the name suggests, the program in Literary and Cultural Studies is founded on interpretive approaches that regularly link individual texts to the conditions of their production and reception.

Students in the Ph.D. program in Literary and Cultural Studies benefit from the close supervision of faculty members who work at the intersection of textual studies and cultural theory. This process of apprenticeship culminates in individual dissertation projects mutually crafted by the student and dissertation supervisor. Dissertations vary in subject matter; for example, recent topics include: images of the Pacific during the "Crisis of Imperialism" in American fiction; representations of female authorship and generativity in seventeenth century English culture; documentary photography, realist fiction and social reform literature during the Progressive Era; figurations of moral agency during the long eighteenth century. While topics reflect the individual interests of students, dissertations tend to focus on the ideological and linguistic frames in which specific cultural practices — for example, reading novels during the eighteenth century — become intelligible as acts with larger social, political and intellectual implications.

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