The University of Virginia based in Charlottesville, Virginia offers a fully funded PhD in English Literature. Currently admit ten Ph.D. students each year. The PhD program, with its coursework, exams, guided dissertation research, and training in teaching, places graduates everywhere that research skills, rigorous analysis, and good writing are valued. Financial support, including tuition, fees, one-person health-insurance coverage (approximately $30,000) is awarded to all Ph.D. students from the first through the fifth year of study, with students regularly receiving support in the sixth and seventh years of study.