Childermass

Haha. I'm glad you understood the complexity of the sentiment. Thanks to all for the congratulations! It was both relief and quite a bit of excitement, as you may relate. Along with the email came praise from my POI and committee for my research, and the offer of substantial funding (no numbers as of yet).

This sort of news is hard to refrain from posting about – I've not received any official communication yet, but in the spirit of conviviality I'll say that I've been accepted into one of the US West coast PhD programs in my signature! I was contacted by my POI on Friday evening (I believe I've seen people use this acronym; hope I'm using it correctly). I think this is a sort of early acceptance situation. Apologies to all for the temporary ambiguity, but I'll be more forthcoming once I get an official email from the school.

Amazing. Your comment in the results search made me laugh. Congratulations!!!!

Tantalizing isn't it? Not a peep from any of my schools.

Looks like a U. Vic MA acceptance. Wonder when their PhD accepts come out. Congrats to whoever got it!

I have a bit in the past, but I find him too cynical even for my tastes – not that his writing on those matters hasn't been insightful. I've worked in tech for many years so I'm well aware of the sort of flattening of knowledge in favor of 'information' and the trade school mentality being applied to higher ed. But at the same time, I see (digital) humanities as a means of breaking those bad habits, and actually re-enriching our experiences with that information.

Believe it or not, there's only one family member of mine who has been not supportive of what I'm doing, and even they have come around in their own way as I've had a fair amount of success in the past two years. Of course, I have an engineering background in school and work together with a literary/language studies one. As someone who does DH, I find that focus provides both a wow factor and sense of financial security in social situations. The latter may or may not be true in academia, but what is true is that I could likely find my way into a data science job. As per the stereotype, behind DH's new modes of critical discourse comes the shadow of capitalism (neoliberal, or however you should choose to label it). But that is also of our cultural moment, and I think most here would agree that the academy is nothing less than shot through with capitalistic interest at this point regardless of our idealistic "content."

Mostly 19th century American and digital text analysis/visualization.

Just checking in here for the first time this application season. DHer @ McGill. I'm assuming the melee of mailings is about to commence. (Programs applied for in my signature.)

I have a BA in English Literature and Language, BUT my first degree is from 6 years prior, a BS in Computer Science. The combined fields and the order of my degrees has definitely allowed me to stand out - that and having working experience as a programmer/tech worker in between.

Excuse the first post, but I figured I'd chime in and grumble. I've been lurking/reading/watching results/submitting results since this whole fiasco started late last year. I've been accepted to 3 MA programs after having applied to PhDs, and waitlisted at another MA. Just waiting on Oxford, and grumbling because the school I do want to go to - McGill, where I also have an excellent RAship lined up - needs my answer to accept or defer by April 1. And according to my Oxford contact, the English folk are just waiting on the admissions staff to churn out emails at this point!