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I would like to know too!

Yep. I haven't heard anything yet either. And I don't hold out hope for BU because I'll have 2 MA degrees and apparently they don't like people who have an MA from somewhere else.

I have class too tomorrow and I am in MA...

I thought about Columbia. But in the end, it was the money that kept me from doing so. I wouldn't even have been able to apply to Brandeis if they hadn't offered me an application fee waiver. Columbia's definitely on the list for next year. Maybe I'll have better chances if I can actually show that I already have the MA degrees.

Right?! It all just seems contradictory. I don't know about that... I think it has more to do with the fact that Asian-American lit is actually growing. Anglo-Jewish lit? There's not much out there. I guess you can have a small field or a almost non-existent field. And apparently, they like the small field better than the almost non-existent one.

I think that's kind of weird. I thought Lewis Carroll was pretty much accepted. I know that a friend of mine just got her paper on film adaptations of Alice accepted at a conference.

Thank you. I was actually really offended when my professor told me that. I'm just confused as to why they're not letting in something new. I'm convinced that professors can learn just as much from grad students as grad students learn from them. Yeah, I don't hold out much hope for this round. But I know that my applications were all too rushed and my interests are too non-traditional. In terms of the literature that I study. I would love to keep researching on Anglo-Jewish literature but 19th century British literature would interest me just as much and I think I can make them like me more if I do something traditional like Jane Austen. Or even George Eliot. But yes, it's definitely nice to know that one is not alone.

For me, it's also that I'm German. And honestly? I kind of hate that people think I can't or shouldn't write about Anglo-Jewish literature. One of my professors here in the US kept on telling me how careful I had to be with this topic.... I don't know. As you've said, there are a lot of people working on Native American and African American literature who are not related to these ethnic groups. I know a lot of them and no one ever questions them about their choice. Oh, yes. I'm thinking that I will only mention that I wrote my thesis on Anglo-Jewish literature. My main focus will be, however, literary theory and Jane Austen if I have to apply a second time. Which seems very likely right now.

Thank you! Shylock and Daniel Deronda are amazing. I think, though, that my interests in this particular field are what's keeping me from getting into any of the programs I applied to.

I'm writing about The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens and Disobedience by Naomi Alderman. I'm looking at constructions of identity - gender, sexuality, parental auhtorities - with the background of multiculturalism in Britain. It's very Foucauldian. (I think I should have stressed my interest in literary theory more in my SOP.) One of my favorite professors back in Germany gave a class on Jews and Jewishness last year. The module as a whole was about identity and alterity. We read Shakespeare, George Eliot, Wesker, and Rubens. People keep looking at me in a weird way and are like 'You're not Jewish, you know that right?' And I just keep thinking that it doesn't matter with the approach I'm taking.

I'm actually writing my MA thesis on contemporary Anglo-Jewish literature and it is awful how little scholarly interest there has been in that particular field.

Okay... After seeing the results board, I'm going to sit in a corner and cry...

Someone over in the Acceptance thread claimed the Brandeis acceptance.

Thanks! Yeah, I don't really know what I'm going to do the next year if I don't get in anywhere. Do you know if they contacted everyone that got in today?

Congratulations!!! I guess that'll be another assumed rejection then...

Yeah, I got the application fee waiver too. I'll let you know!

Anyone want to claim Brandeis? Or was someone just trying to be funny?

I haven't heard anything AT ALL....

Yep, me too. I've never been so sad to see no emails in my inbox.

Congratulations!!! Yep... Not even waitlisted apparently.

Same here.

Congratulations!!!

I hope so... I would really love to go to Boston. But I also didn't expect to hear of them notifying before next week.

Yes, I think languages really help a great deal usually. I just hope that they'll also help me...

Am I getting two MA degrees at the same time - one international, one US - and I haven't presented at a conference either. Though I think that it's mostly my advisor's fault here in the US. She had us write abstracts and then look for conferences that fit the abstracts. So that we would "write about things we like." Funny thing is my topic was too specific and there's only a limited amount of scholarship on it. I got rejected by NEMLA and the panel at the ACLA for which I had been a shoe in has been cancelled because of too few submissions. I couldn't get into another panel at the ACLA because it was again too specific. But I don't think that it's the end of the world if you don't have a conference on your CV.