Overview

Our Theatre and Performance Studies faculty at Tufts University specialize in illuminating how social and cultural formations — particularly gender, race, indigeneity, ethnicity, sexuality, colonization, religion, and class — inform performance both on and off stage.

In turn, we support and celebrate interdisciplinary scholarship from our graduate students that centers shared concerns of performance, such as the body, repetition, liveness, and visuality, while at the same time taking up concerns in outside fields of inquiry.

Careers

Faculty believe in a wide variety of possibilities for life after earning a PhD, and offer strategies for navigating the academic job market as well as alternative job markets for students who wish to pursue careers in arts administration, editing, grant writing, higher education administration, library studies, publishing, technical writing, arts entrepreneurship, and the corporate sector.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Theatre, Pedagogy, Curriculum and Professional Development
Latinx Theatre and Performance
19th Century American Theatre
Confronting Genocide on Stage and Screen
Modern Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Performance Ethnography
Innovative Musicals
Colonial Unknowing
Queer, Trans, and Feminist Performance

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Medford, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Application fee
Resume/CV
Official TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo English Test, if applicable
Transcripts
Three letters of recommendation
A personal statement no more than 1,000 words that addresses questions such as: Why this particular program? What sort of questions has your research turned up so far? How is performance central to your research questions?
A writing sample that reflects a scholarly discussion of a topic in or related to theater (ex. part of a master's thesis, a term paper, or a research article).

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

10148 USD / year

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Out-of-State

10148 USD / year

≈ 10148 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

10148 USD / year

≈ 10148 USD / year

Additional Details

The tuition for PhD students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is fully covered by Tufts tuition scholarships.

Living costs

Medford

United States

1458 - 3019 USD / month

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Overview

Careers

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Additional Details

Living costs

Medford

Funding

Scholarships Information

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