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chalkboardsonata

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  1. "The practical vs. the impractical" is a loaded dichotomy that accepts hilariously ironic categories of use. I hate this thread so much.
  2. Did my undergrad there and that's not at all true. Yes, it's in the middle of a master-planned suburb, but that doesn't seem to have much influence. Take a look at the work of their Creative Writing MFA alumni or the members of their Critical Theory Institute.
  3. The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Esp. The Big Sleep. Stars, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, PLUS co-written by William Faulkner during his Hollywood years.
  4. YOU CAN DO SOMETHING REGARDLESS OF DEGREE. I get it. You're concealing your career anxieties in some banal complaint about the academic study of the humanitites. You're not the first, won't be the last. Go get your JD, become a lawyer, and put your middle-class financial worries to rest. But don't try to justify your decision by attacking the importance of humanities research.
  5. UC-Irvine is home to the International Center for Writing and Translation. I have friends who obtained fellowships here. It's also worth checking out UCI's comp lit dept. http://www.hnet.uci.edu/icwt/
  6. Earlier this month, I met with a friend in an English PhD program at my undergraduate alma mater to catch up and discuss grad apps. After reading a part of my senior thesis (which I'm planning on using as a basis for my writing sample), he invited me to participate in a Call for Papers (CFP) for a graduate student conference he's organizing. He wants me to join a panel with him and another grad student, and give a 20 min. presentation of my writing sample. I was wondering what exactly a CFP is, and what kind of conference I might expect from it. I've been on 2 different panels before, but I don't know if CFP conferences differ from any other standard academic conference. Can anybody help me out?
  7. I'm still in the process of winnowing a massive list of programs, so I won't even attempt to 'tier' the programs I'm interested in in any way, but I'm sure as I go along some will fit more strongly than others. Michigan U of Chicago Vanderbilt Brown WUSTL My research interests include the 20th cent. US novel ==> modernism ==> the relationship b/w economic and literary forms ==> literary representations of urbanization ==> Los Angeles fiction in the midst of 1930s/40s crisis, + Saul Bellow's Chicago and Dos Passos' New York. With the use of arrows, I want to represent my interests as a range from general to specific, because I think that's a better way of understanding how we pursue our interests as critics: we have several levels of specificity we can engage on. And put this way it avoids looking at our interests as sometimes vapid, categorical specialization. I guess the main reason I want to share my prospects and academic interests is to get some insight on an insider's experience of a department. Anybody go to any of these schools and can give a little perspective on the feel of any of these departments? Thank you, girl who wears glasses, for your advice on Michigan.
  8. Actually, that makes 3 of us with similar research interests, minus the Joyce and Irish literature, plus literary representation of urbanization. If you wouldn't mind another, I'd like to send you message too, "girl who wears glass," because I'm also interested in Michigan.
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