{"id":16195,"date":"2019-05-07T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=16195"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:34:34","slug":"phd-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/graduate-programs\/phd-english\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD in English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n PhD in English\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Table of Contents\n <\/h2>\n
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\n \n 1.\n <\/span>\n\n \n Overview\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n
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\n \n 1.1\n <\/span>\n\n \n PhD Admission Requirements\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 1.2\n <\/span>\n\n \n Applying to the PhD Program\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 1.3\n <\/span>\n\n \n Awards and Funding\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n
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\n \n 1.4\n <\/span>\n\n \n International Students\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The English Department has offered graduate instruction at the Master\u2019s level since 1960 and at the doctoral level since 2006. Our PhD program is unique in Canada for its innovative conjoining of book history with theoretical questions about the sociology of literary production, circulation, and consumption. At the graduate level we remain committed to balancing what is best in the traditional range of historical periods and national literatures with newly emerging areas of academic research and scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton\u2019s PhD program in English studies the production, circulation, and reception of texts through analyzing their institutional, technological, and discursive contexts. It is unique in Canada in its commitment to fusing empirical inquiry into book history with theoretical questions about subjectivity, gender, race, and class. It assumes that \u201cliterature\u201d is not a given, stable term, but a relational field, which produces culture in terms of identity formation and ideology and is produced by culture in terms of material conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our PhD program addresses questions about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n