The University of California Irvine, based in Irvine, CA offers a fully funded PhD in German. The German PhD program is particularly well represented in the field of modern German literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. There is strong research and teaching interest in the eighteenth century, the Age of Goethe, Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, and twentieth and twenty-first-century literature. The German Graduate Program supports its graduate students through fellowships and graduate teaching assistantships. All admitted Ph.D. applicants will receive a five-year funding package from the School of Humanities, which will consist of a combination of fellowship, TA-ship, and research assistantship support.