M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures

专业介绍

The Department of Romance Studies offers Ph.D. degrees with concentrations in French and Francophone studies, Hispanic studies (literature track or linguistics track), and Italian studies. Students may apply directly to the Ph.D. program having either completed a master’s degree, or they may apply having completed their bachelor’s and work toward what is referred to as a “Shadow M.A.” that they would receive en route to the Ph.D. after satisfactorily completing all second-year requirements. 

Each Romance studies graduate program offers advanced training in literary, linguistic, and cultural aspects of the Romance world with a strong interdisciplinary orientation. Our community of scholars represents the wide range and increasing complexity of trends, frameworks and schools that constitute the study of the traditional humanities and the digital humanities today. 

We offer three concentrations within the Ph.D. in Romance studies: 

• French and Francophone Studies
• Italian Studies
• Literatures, Languages, and Cultures of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America

We also offer a dual-track MA to PhD option in Hispanic Linguistics. For this program, students need to apply to both the Department of Romance Studies and the Department of Linguistics separately and are admitted jointly. Students who already possess an MA in a related field of study may apply directly to the Hispanic Linguistics PhD track. 

Research Facilities

The Walter Royal Davis and Wilson Libraries’ Spanish, French, and Italian collections rank among the best in the nation. The Spanish and Spanish American collections are particularly strong in Early Modern, Colonial, and 19th- and 20th-century holdings. The French collection has similar strengths in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and is enriched by the Charles Nodier and René Char materials. The Italian collection exhibits strength in the 19th century. These strengths are enhanced by extensive holdings in reference, specialized journals, and rare books. Among the latter are a notable gathering of 20th-century first editions of French writers, a distinguished Spanish drama collection of more than 26,000 plays (many of them pre-1830 sueltas), and the Flatow Collection of Latin American Cronistas, consisting of early imprints of the Hispanization of the New World.