The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures offers a doctoral programme in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Applicants may choose one of two modes of study:

• internal
• external (called “combined” in university materials and applications)

While all instruction is conducted through English, the doctoral programme is run in two language versions as regards administrative procedures:

• programme accredited in Czech (no tuition fees)
• programme accredited in English (a tuition fee is charged by the university; for the academic year 2025/26, it has been set at CZK 25 000 per year)

NB: All applicants to the programme accredited in Czech need to prove their competence in the language (see general admission rules). Applicants who cannot prove such competence are advised to apply to paid version.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025 (programme accredited in Czech); 31 March 2025 (programme accredited in English)

Find out more about the application procedure:

• application
• entrance examination

The main aim of the programme is a substantial doctoral dissertation which must be recommended by the student’s supervisor and two examiners/reviewers and defended in public before an examination board. For the descriptions of the dissertation contents, standard and examination, and of the final oral examination in the PhD programme, see:

• doctoral dissertation
• state final exam

Applicants are strongly advised to consult the Department webpages in detail and to consider the areas of specialization of staff members when preparing the dissertation topic. Consultations in advance of application are also recommended.

Doctoral students must pass entrance interviews and then prepare, in cooperation with a supervisor, individual study plans.

Mandatory Courses and Examinations:

• Doctoral seminar consisting of two one-semester PhD seminars (including Rhetoric in Literature and Philosophy, a course supplemented with instruction in practical issues of academic career development) and annual presentations of their work in progress in the PhD seminar.
• Foreign language exam (German, French, Spanish) organized by the Faculty of Arts Language Centre. Other languages may be assigned in view of the dissertation topic.
• Philosophy – organized by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
• Expanded theses of the PhD dissertation.
• Dissertation chapter submitted by the end of the third year of study.
• Research activities including an article published in a peer-reviewed journal or a chapter in a peer-reviewed monograph, a conference presentation, a research stay abroad, and a minimum of two other research activities (such as an application for a grant project, editing a collection of essays or conference proceedings, translation of an academic article or book, work on an academic conference committee, teaching a BA/MA-level course, another academic publication or conference presentation). A minimum of five activities must be fulfilled in toto.
• One to three one-semester courses in a subject of relevance to the student’s dissertation, as specified in the individual study plan; this obligation may be substituted by an additional research activity approved by the supervisor.
• Regular consultations with the supervisor.

Student progress is evaluated at the end of each year by their supervisor, the evaluation being subject to the approval of the Graduate Studies Board (“oborová rada”).

The PhD programme is concluded by an oral final examination, which precedes the examination of the doctoral dissertation.

For further information concerning the PhD programme, please contact the director, Professor Ondřej Pilný.