Doctor of Philosophy in English (Literature) at the Institute of English Studies is one of the oldest PhD English programmes offered anywhere in Pakistan, and stands second to none. Providing the researchers with an unrivalled academic experience, our PhD programme is designed to include in-depth research training and original contribution in the selected field of study. The candidates are expected to have expertise in their areas of interest and come up with innovative research ideas, which either significantly add to the existing scholarship or bring forward debates of global concern. |
The Faculty is a vibrant combination of experience and youth, the Institute launched a full-fledged PhD programme in 2004. The Institute offers an array of choices in emerging interdisciplinary fields of research ranging among Cultural Studies, American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Theory, and South-Asian Studies. Keeping in context the history of the Global South, of which Pakistan is a part, we are particularly fostering research pertaining to Pakistan’s geopolitical and cultural imagery; and in recent past, have produced theses on Partition Literature, Chinese Literature, and Indigenous Poetics. However, we equally welcome research in European canonical and modern literature. We offer a variegated assemblage of course work on European philosophical aesthetics, literary history, and critical theory. Altogether, our PhD programme promotes diversity, indigeneity and eclecticism. |
