Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to inform you that graduate fellowships for both MA and PhD programs in French and Francophone Studies, Italian Studies, and Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Notre Dame are available.

The application deadline is February 1, 2011 (https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=nd-grad). Thank you for sharing this information with colleagues and any students who might be interested in applying.

For more information about the Department of Romance Languages and the PhD in Literature Program at the University of Notre Dame, please see:

http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/

(http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/news-and-events/fabella-archives/2010/)

http://phdliterature.nd.edu/

 

We also include, copied below this message, a letter from Professor Alain Toumayan, Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Romance Language and Literatures, that briefly outlines the structure of our programs, and some of the resources available to students at Notre Dame for your information.

Joseph Buttigieg

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Literature

Director, PhD in Literature

University of Notre Dame

http://phdliterature.nd.edu/

 

Theodore Cachey

Professor and Chair

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

University of Notre Dame

http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/

 

 

 

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to bring to your attention a special opportunity for talented students interested in graduate studies in Romance languages and literatures. At the University of Notre Dame we have M.A. programs in French and Francophone, Italian, and Iberian and Latin American Studies as well as an innovative Ph.D. in Literature program. Our department features an active and productive cohort of scholar-teachers with strong research profiles and publication records, and with national and in many cases international reputations.

The M.A. programs offer a comprehensive two-year course of study, providing a strong background in French and Francophone, Italian, or Iberian and Latin American studies, while also cultivating students' theoretical and analytical skills. The program has consistently attracted top-notch candidates, and we have had great success in placing them afterwards in such competitive doctoral programs as Princeton, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, New York University, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard and Stanford.

The recently founded Ph.D. in Literature program, now in its eighth year, combines in one doctoral program the forces of a number of departments and programs (from Classics, East Asian Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German and Russian, Iberian and Latin American Studies, Irish Studies, Italian Studies, Philosophy; Film, Television and Theatre, and Theology). The Ph.D. in Literature brings together outstanding faculty and resources to enable doctoral students to study literature both within traditional disciplines and across disciplinary and national boundaries. This program is designed for the intellectually creative student, and it combines the breadth and depth of a doctorate in the individual national languages with a program of study whose built-in flexibility serves a variety of constituencies. The Ph.D. in Literature offers a flexible curricular framework for the formation of scholar-teachers whose intellectual and market prospects will be high. A new Graduate Certificate in Screen Studies allows studies to focus on film and media studies in their academic preparation and to work closely with Notre Dame's distinguished faculty in these areas.

With the implementation of the PhD in Literature program the Romance Languages at Notre Dame have embarked on an unprecedented period of doctoral-level research and teaching in addition to our already outstanding tradition in undergraduate and masters level education.

Library holdings at the University of Notre Dame complement faculty strengths and provide rich resources for graduate study. With particularly strong holdings in Medieval literature and a complete photographic record of the incomparable manuscript collection of the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, the library at the University of Notre Dame provides an ideal environment for graduate work in the earlier periods of Romance Studies. Students interested in the Spanish American colonial period are able to draw on the exceptional Jose Durand collection of manuscripts from the Spanish colonies in the New World, as well as the Harley L. McDevitt collection of inquisition materials. Recent generous endowments in Dante Studies, the Southern Cone area of Latin America, and the Hispanic Caribbean have allowed us to create outstanding library collections that support cutting-edge research in these areas as well as to promote lecture series and other forums of academic exchange. The Michael Browning Family Cinema, in the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, is the only THX-certified cinema in the state of Indiana and provides an ideal format for a wide variety of contemporary and classical film screenings and academic symposia.

A full range of fellowship funding is available to students in both the M.A. and the Ph.D. in Literature programs. Students admitted to both programs normally receive full tuition fellowships and generous annual stipends. Support for M.A. students lasts two years, while support for the Ph.D. in Literature students lasts five. Financial support is also available for summer research travel.

The M.A. programs and the Ph.D. in Literature program are both currently accepting applications for 2011-2012. The deadline for the M.A. programs and the Ph.D. in Literature program is February 1, 2011.

Please share this information with your graduate director and interested undergraduate majors or Masters students. Please feel free to send me the names of interested students by email [log in to unmask], I will contact those students directly.

For more information about graduate study at Notre Dame, visit our website: http://romancelanguages.nd.edu with links to affiliated departments and programs.

With warm regards,

Alain P. Toumayan
Director of Graduate Studies