SongOfMyself

Oh great! I will look into those programs. I'm afraid I phrased my original post incorrectly though-- I'm more of a 19th century focus! I keep finding great programs for 17/18c, but not a lot of 19c.

Hi all, I'm starting to try and find potential advisors or programs conducive for colonial/postcolonial literature focused PhDs. My MSc focuses on transatlanticism (primarily British lit), religious studies, nationalism, and gender up until about 1900. The only problem I'm having is that most of the departments I've found have people who are really great in eighteenth- or seventeenth-century colonial/ postcolonial lit (including at my BA institution), but nothing in the long nineteenth century, especially Romantic & Victorian literature (edit: and regarding South Asia, particularly India). If you have any suggestions or ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Hi, all! I got my BA in English at a school in the South, graduated with a 3.9 in 2015. I received a Fulbright ETAship and just returned from that to the US. In the 2014-15 application season, I applied for 8 PhDs and 4 MAs my senior year of college, and got one PhD offer, all four Masters. I then asked to defer (for Fulbright) and so was still accepted to those 4 Masters, plus another MA for the 2015-16 application season, 2016 academic year. My 2015 applications were not very impressive; I have since finished and defended my undergraduate honors thesis, presented 4 papers, spoken individually and on roundtables at several education and English conferences, gotten and completed my Fulbright grant, as well as won several other awards for my research and papers, and, additionally, have focused my research interests and statements (which were kind of all over the place). Since I want to go into a PhD but after a masters to show schools "hey look, I'm back in academia now after a year of not writing papers!", I decided to take a one-year MSc in English at Edinburgh for 2016-17. I like the program, the professors, and school a lot, and the fact that this is unfunded doesn't concern me too much, as, with a housing offer and some scholarships they've given, it's less debt than any of my funded/halfway funded offers in the US would have been, and only one year long. My question is, since 2016-17 application for PhDs will begin after only knowing my Masters professors for a couple of months in later 2016, should I wait to apply for PhDs until 2017-18 season and take another year to teach at an international or private school? (My thinking is that this would not only allow for better masters references and thesis writing samples, but also would add another dimension of international and educational experience to my resume.) Or should I go ahead and try my hand at PhD programs this coming season when I've just started my MSt? Thank you!!

Just received status that I am a Fulbright ETA to India!!