We do not have an exhaustive list of disciplines. It is central that your dissertation has a decidedly literary focus. This can be the case in a variety of disciplines: Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, African Studies, Media Studies, etc.

There are various designations of our philologies. On this website, for convenience, the following designations are used largely interchangeably:

• Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies, English Studies as an umbrella term, English Studies (focus British), American Studies (focus U.S.)
• French Studies, French Literary Studies
• German Studies, German Literary studies
• Ibero-Romance Studies, Hispanic Studies, Ibero-Romance Literary Studies
• Italian Studies, Italian Literary Studies
• Jewish Studies, Jewish Literary Studies
• Nordic Studies, Scandinavian Studies
• Slavic Studies, Slavic Literary Studies, Slavic Philology

Most doctoral students in General Literary Studies are at the German Department. Comparative Literature is usually a combination of two or more of the above philologies.