The Department offers a doctoral programme in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. Applicants may choose one of two modes of study:
- internal (4 years with a scholarship)
- external (referred to as “combined” in university materials; 5 to 8 years without a scholarship)
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.
The core of the programme is an innovative doctoral dissertation which must be recommended by the student’s supervisor and two examiners and defended in public before an examination board.
Doctoral students are required to prepare an individual study plan following their enrolment in the programme. The plan is devised in cooperation with the student’s supervisor and must include the following obligations:
- 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 presentation of the student’s 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.
- Exam in 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.
For details, please consult the general study plans of the programme:
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”).
Further details concerning the rules of study are outlined in the Faculty of Arts Study Regulations: in Czech, in English.
The PhD programme is concluded by:
For further information concerning the PhD programme, please contact the director, Professor Ondřej Pilný.