Yale University, based in New Haven, Connecticut offers a fully funded PhD in French. Yale’s graduate program in French literature offers both a rigorous grounding in French Literature and an interdisciplinary approach to French theory, thought, and culture. All Yale students receive full financial support (tuition plus full stipend, including health insurance coverage) for five years of graduate study. This includes two years of coursework without teaching, two years of teaching, and a dissertation fellowship year. Students who pursue dissertation research in France or a francophone country receive an additional year of support without having to teach.