Laokoon

Congrats! As I understand it, early admission is tied (exclusively?) to nomination for the graduate school wide fellowships. So, double congrats. That said, it will likely be a few days before you get a call or email (I got mine at like 8pm on Saturday a few days after the site switched over). If you have any questions about OSU/Columbus/etc feel free to PM me, though I'm not on here overly much.

I went to SEASECS twice as an undergrad., and I found it an incredibly rewarding experience each time. For me, the best part was seeing the same folks both years and starting to form friendships. I think something to keep in mind - especially for regional / college level conferences - is the importance and fun of meeting others in your field. At the national level, I suppose your eye is more on the market (though, this is not to say this isn't the case at the regional level, of course). That said, please PM me if you have any specific questions/concerns, and ill do my best to help. ETA: I presented both times.

Ut-Knoxville has a few people who may be of interest: Bill Hardwig (srsly one of the coolest people), Amy Elias, Julie Reed (History). ETA: looks like Chapel Hill has a solid program as well: http://americanindianstudies.unc.edu/

We've started looking into buying as well. The whole 5+ year commitment makes it make a lot of sense, given the rental market and our love of animals.

. I feel like half the cohort is on here! ETA: Obvs congrats!!!

WOOT!

Welcome! I second Clintonville/VV, though what you are looking for will vary with your needs (family, pets, car etc.)

Current OSU MFA student Silas Hansen is going to be on NPR's Talk of the Nation tonight. That's pretty effin cool.

I would have to imagine there are enough intelligent, engaged, and caring prospectives and grad students on here that we could cobble together a formidable force to help you (for the low cost of up votes and gifs)

Yay!!!!!!!!

Fantastic! I was 99% sure that was you! It was so nice to meet everyone in person.

I'm in grey and boots, if anyone else is creepin'

I am - I think half of OSU's incoming cohort is just BAs.

I won't be around campus 'til Friday morning. I'll be searching for coffee before the day's activities though, if anyone has recommendations/wants to join me.

I LOVE Tennessee. All of my grandparents are from Tennessee, and I have many relatives there. It's such a gorgeous state. I've never been to Nashville, but I've heard some great things about it . Meant to reply to this and may well have (ah, the drink). I'd suggest googling Stacy Campfield, Sex Week, and funding - does seem to bring this all to a point. ETA: that was a quote (again, drinking &c.)

If the conference is a good fit for your interests (and it seems to be), no real reason not to submit. There are very few conferences that would be detrimental (and these are mostly bc they are considered pseudo-academic ie not tied to a reputable program or society). To my limited knowledge, this is not one of them. However, do keep in mind that will not damaging, a low level conference may not do as much work for you on your cv as you may hope.

PMed you!

Check out Robin Valenza's work at UW-Madison. I'd definitely agree there are some serious issues with the digital humanities being occasionally used as a CV booster, though.

Trip said just about everything that I was too lazy to type. I would add, however, that the opposite of "close" reading is "distant" reading, not careless reading as was mentioned earlier - this obviously has no place in academia. Distant reading, via the administrative darling DH (as it was dismissively termed) is doing the exact work being called for in order to reshape the canon. Through Bayesian modeling among other forms, DH are redefining the broad aesthetic movements that undergird the canon and which this thread, this far, has left fairly unchallenged.

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I'm quite glad the department came through! I look forward to meeting everyone soon, as well!

It does seem that the grad. school proper is paying (based on the forms). I am driving, and we are not staying in a hotel. I'm really not sure what accommodations in the area look like.

I haven't heard anything about that. I also haven't spoken with him in about a week, though, so I'm not sure I'm of much help.

I think this is exactly right. Any interesting archival work, conferences, languages etc. are what make you a strong applicant to English programs, NOT why you are likely to be admitted to a specific program with specific (intellectual) resources.

I am not in poco or ethnic lit, though I am entering with a BA.