moderatedbliss
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On 12/08/2017 at 10:58 PM, Horb said:
I'm 25 and won a Fulbright. Age does not matter all. There are people in their 40s who win.
But are there people in their 40's doing Fulbright ETA's? Can't help but feel like age-wise, there would be a fairly significant difference between research and ETA Fulbrights.
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Hey everyone,
Does anyone have any data/ guesstimates about the average age of Fulbright ETA'ers? I'm 24 (will be 25 at start of the Fulbright, and worry a wee bit about feeling old). Subjective info is absolutely welcome as well. Thanks! -
Anybody here by chance apply for a "Special" (Spring) ETA Fulbright? Deadline was about a week ago or so... here back at the end of August!
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not sure about this, but hopefully somebody here has had a similar experience. Best of luck!!
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On 10/07/2017 at 9:30 PM, Horb said:
Honestly, just email Fulbright what you posted here (about the links) and see what they say. This year, make sure you store multiple backups in multiple places.
Ended up getting a pdf! For anyone that runs into the same issue, email Embark and they can help.
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On 7/7/2017 at 8:13 PM, Horb said:
Did you apply at-large or through your school? Your school might have a record of it.
at-large, unfortunately...
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Hi all,
Do you guys still have access to your Fulbright app? I'm applying for a special ETA and it would be incredibly useful to be able to access my application, but can't seem to get it.
I was given this link: https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/usa/29/, but when I try to access the application, I receive this message: "This application is no longer current. To access the most recent version of this application, please go to http://iie.embark.com/apply/usstudent. I don't get any further than that -- there's no account associated with the email that I used to apply last Fall, it looks like the two links are totally independent of each other.
Any advice at all is welcome!
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rejected, boop
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2 minutes ago, Horb said:
RECOMMENDED!
congrats!
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afraid that i never even submitted the application. please, just let me hear back.
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haven't received anything.
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According to the Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, in Feudal Japan, samurai lived as if they were already dead so they wouldn't fear death.
(Or at least that's what the movie Ghostdog said)
I, too, take this approach. I have accepted Fulbright defeat, and as such, have room only for good news. The only direction is up.
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3 hours ago, Sarahjk said:
I have an Antunes' book on my shelf. It's in Portuguese, so it's a slow read for me. I'm taking Portuguese lessons with a tutor. I'd love to hear about your translation path. How great would be to have this literature convo over coffee in Lisbon? Here's to hoping your timely response is an auspicious omen. ??
i haven't even tried antunes in portuguese yet tbh - sticking to authors that generally pay attention to grammar/narrative for the moment while i'm learning... lol. Let me know when you hear back!
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5 minutes ago, Sarahjk said:
Hi! Where in Portugal? I have friend in the Lisbon and Oporto areas. I want study José Saramago's cultural influences. I love his work. And continue to a series of fabulist stories set in Portugal. And a novel in the vain of Twain's, a Connecticut Yankee...., but of course a Bostonian in Lisbon.
Are you studying or working?
Lisbon. I'm working / teaching myself Portuguese part-time while waiting for my citizenship application to process...
That's rad! Part of the reason I came is because I want to translate Lusitanian lit in the future. Saramago is great, but António Lobo Antunes is my favorite.
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I'm out data on my phone and I'll be playing basketball when the info arrives. Going to be awkwardly asking 16 year-olds if I can "borrow their phone to check something" every 15 minutes.
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If you're on the West Coast and still sleeping, consider yourself lucky. Out here in Europe trying to get along with the knowledge that I probably won't hear back until 8 or 9 PM. here.
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Gunna plan my exercising around the email tomorrow so if it's bad news, I can drown my sorrow in the leg machines. Either that or take a sad-nap. One of the two.
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On 1/10/2017 at 9:56 PM, Caien said:
I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, you're looking for recommendations for schools (academies) that are unacademic? Harold Bloom was a Ivy League professor. Are you asking as you are scoping out schools to which to apply for the PhD?
If you mean criticism that is not so heavily influenced by the literary theory schools that emerged in the mid-20th century, structuralism, marxism, pschoanalysis etc., that we refer in shorthand to as 'theory' literary criticism was still theoretically informed before the theory wars, if not so patently 'pre-defined', to borrow your own term, into subgroups. (In my opinion, it is more that the assumptions on which literary criticism was based were less rigorously examined and systematically applied, but that is another conversation.) If it is less theory-orientated in this sense that you are getting at in your request, the British Isles is much less theoretical than either continental Europe or the US, 'Anglo-American' is a bit of a misnomer in my opinion. The approach in the UK/Ireland is in many way old historicism by default.
I did have a professor who was wasn't so much anti-theory as perplexed by it and told us he basically ignored it hoping it would go away for 40 years (he's just retired). He was trained at Cambridge and wrote criticism much like that of Harold Bloom, focused on meaning as derived from a reading of themes and characters. Its just my two cents, but I reckon you'd be hard pressed to find many professors like him these days, let alone entire schools. Its difficult to simply ignore theory as it has transformed the discipline so much.
That said, Harvard make a point of having no theoretical leaning on their department website, but I can't speak to the reality of such a claim.
This is massively helpful, thank you. I did my master's in the UK and noticed what you mention, I was curious if there were any places stateside that adopted the same approach.
I've played around w/ the idea of going back I loved the atmosphere of my master's and most of the work that it entailed, but after having spent some time in the non-academic literary world, I can't help but feel like any further research I'd do within academia would be pointless / removed from the real, tangible world of literature. That being said, I still don't feel completely divorced from the academy.
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On 1/13/2017 at 1:13 PM, crugs said:
off topic, but @moderatedbliss you'll appreciate this special note on a box set of Shakespeare for Kids
- Recommended for children aged 9–12 and Harold Bloom
HAHAHA. This made my day, well done.
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7 minutes ago, Horb said:
Hi! I just wanted to point out this on the Fulbright website (under regional info for western hemisphere applicants): Selection for countries in Central America and the Caribbean will be made based on the quality of the applications, rather than per-country quotas. Distribution of awards to countries in the region will vary annually according to the caliber of the applicants.
So, yes, Brazil's award numbers have gone down, but I know in past years the numbers altered. In particular, I remember someone who applied to Argentina, was an alternate, but then asked to revise their application (in that cycle) for Brazil and got the award. So I think this region in particular is a bit more open than others.
Totally missed that. Thanks a bunch, super useful!
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Hey all,
This is probably a bit of a strange question, but for those of you already in a PhD program, in the process of applying, have you come across any schools that focus heavily on literary criticism in a less... well... academic sense? Think Harold Bloom, except except the clear misogyny and apathy towards inclusivity/ irreverent love for Shakespeare.
In essence, something that focuses more on lit-crit in the classical sense and less on specific pre-defined schools of literary criticism (like, for example, school A's program is known to be a hub of environmental lit-crit, school B is where all the post-colonialists go to study if they're lucky enough to get in, etc etc.)...
I'm not bashing any of methods of approaching literature at all, but the longer I've spent out of my master's program in Comp Lit, the more I've started to value unacademic criticism.
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Hey all, did anybody happen to apply for Brazil during this cycle? I've just (re)-noticed that the amount of available ETA's has dropped dramatically since 2015-2016. Anybody see this as well / have any idea why? Feeling particularly discouraged after running the percentages through my head... :X
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What do you intend to do post-master's if you do not continue on to the PhD? I can't think of many career options outside of academia where the distinction between Modern Lit and Comp Lit would matter in any significant way.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to respond.
I'm not sure yet, but I would absolutely agree. Outside of academia, the distinction between the prestige of the two universities concerns me far more than the subject matter in the courses themselves, if that makes sense.
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