Branch programme/details

The language of instruction is English. Anglophone Literatures and Cultures is a fee-paying programme. The annual tuition fee is CZK 2,000.

Entrance examination: one-round examination, interview

Content, subject matter of entrance examination
1. Discussion of submitted proposal for PhD dissertation: 0–30 points
2. Assessment of the applicant’s previous studies, research, and other academic activities: 0–15 points
3. Assessment of the applicant’s knowledge of secondary literature (based on the list submitted by the applicant): 0–15 points

Recommended dissertation topics:
• The Picturesque and Historical Novel
• Power in British and American Gothic Fiction
• Imaginary Geographies in British and American Romanticism
• Narratives and Histories of the Settlement of the American West
• Globalisation in Contemporary Irish Drama
• Reflections of the "Celtic Tiger" in Contemporary Irish Fiction
• The Politics of Northern Irish Theatre, 1900–1969
• Belfast as a Literary Topos
• Old English Documentary Prose as A Background to Old English Poetry
• Topoi in Old English Old Testament Poetry
• Fabliaux Elements in Middle English Poetry
• Narrative Theory and the Development of Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Aboriginal Writers
• Tropes of Immigration, Migration and Travel in the History of Canadian Literature
• Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the Poetry of Modernism
• Ideology and Nation in 19th century Irish Poetry
• Translation as Theme in Twentieth-Century Irish/American/British Poetry
• Yeats and the Celtic Revival
• Politics on the Restoration Stage
• Family in the Eighteenth-century Novel
• Travel Writing and Women
• History in British Post-war Women’s Fiction
• Theoretical Otherness, Local Colour Fiction and Kate Chopin
• Narrative Space and Thomas Pynchon
• Literature and Silence

The Subject Area Board also allows applicants to suggest research projects according to their personal preferences.

PhD topics must be consulted beforehand with the Chair of the Subject Area Board. Chair of the Subject Area Board (Programme Director): prof. PhDr. Martin Procházka, CSc., phone: (+420) 221 619 341, e-mail: martin.prochazka@ff.cuni.cz.

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An applicant can only be admitted if they are awarded a minimum of 30 points in the entrance examination and, at the same time, score enough points to place among the expected number of students admitted to the respective programme or field of study (see the Admissions Procedure Requirements applicable to the individual programmes and fields of study); admissions will be granted to all applicants who score the same number of points as the applicant who comes in last place in the ranking of admissions. Please note that different expected numbers of admissions apply to full-time and combined forms of study. Applicants cannot be admitted without submitting evidence of their prior education no later than on the enrolment day (refer to 5.4 hereof).

Admission to Doctoral studies is conditioned by successful completion of a Master's study programme.

Verification method:	entrance exam
Confirmation date (of entrance exam) from:	16.06.2020	Until:	19.06.2020
Alternative date (of entrance exam):	25.06.2020	Until:	25.06.2020

Graduates are highly qualified specialists in literary and cultural studies focused on English-speaking countries, especially the literatures and cultures on the British Isles and in North America. They have a good command of theoretical and methodological approaches, are able to conduct independent research and to teach literary and cultural histories of the United Kingdom, USA, Ireland and other English-speaking countries, and related literary and cultural courses, at tertiary level. They can participate in team research projects and work in international research teams. Czech graduates have a good command of the terminology and style of the discipline in their mother tongue and possess basic knowledge of the reception of Anglophone literatures in Czech culture.