Tulane University Announces January 10, 2026 Deadline for French Studies phd Applications
New orleans, LA – Prospective doctoral students interested in French Studies have a key date on the horizon: January 10, 2026, the application deadline for Tulane University’s PhD program. The program, housed within the Department of French and Italian, offers specialization in four areas - colonial and postcolonial cultures, visual cultures and technologies, European studies, and language and identity – and emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach.
Tulane’s French Studies program boasts a faculty with diverse research interests, including: D. (Stanford university) specializing in cultural studies, cinema, history and performance theory; Jonathan Morton (University of Oxford) focusing on Medieval French literature and intellectual history; Oana Sabo (university of Southern California) with expertise in 20th and 21st-century French literature, migration studies, and digital literary studies; Chelsea Stieber (New York University) specializing in Haitian studies and 19th-century Caribbean literature; and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (University of California, San Diego) researching Maghreb literature, Mediterranean studies, and environmental humanities.
The program encourages cross-departmental study, leveraging courses in Arabic and Haitian Creole and fostering connections with Tulane’s departments of history, political science, African studies, gender and sexual studies, Latin American studies, medieval studies, and Middle East and North Africa studies.
Students benefit from access to unique archival resources, including the Amistad Research Center’s collections on the history of slavery, the notarial archives of New Orleans containing 18th-century French documents, and the cultural and linguistic landscape of French Acadia. The department also publishes Maghreb expressions, a leading scientific journal in the field.
Tulane especially encourages applications from candidates from historically under-represented backgrounds, accepting applicants with either a license or master’s degree. While the GRE is not required, proficiency in both English and French is essential.
Interested applicants can find more information, including a program brochure, at https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/french-italian/graduate/phd-french and https://tulane.box.com/s/jgfjkb3h8vxgf3q35eu06mtex3jn5qjt. Questions can be directed to Chelsea Stieber, the department’s higher education director, at cstieber@tulane.edu.
