jelris

Yes, funding should be a given in the US. The question is whether you'll be lucky enough to have any fellowship years or not and what sorts of duties you'll have as a TA and the terms for funding. Most places do 5 years, some do 4 years, and some will give you health insurance. You should also look at time to completion statistics for universities, if available, since a program where most graduate after 7 years but which only provides funding for 5 may not be attractive to you. I'm not too familiar with your area of research but do remember seeing some support for it at SUNY-Binghamton's Comparative Literature program.

Avocados, I would advise you to apply to the programs that are the best fit for your research interests. What are your current research interests, by the way? Also, why do you want to apply to American programs? The UK has plenty of good programs and you'll probably finish much more quickly there and do less additional coursework.

My interests include phenomenology, ethics, environmental philosophy, critical theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. It is for these reasons that I am applying to a mixed blend of Philosophy and (Comparative) Literature programs. The philosophy programs shall be limited to Duquesne, Villanova, and DePaul.

I am applying to some literature programs that are heavy into theory in order to be able to do research in psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, and ecocriticism. I am finishing up an MA program in Philosophy and am realizing how much better my theoretical interests are aligned with the most theoretical of the literature departments. Right now, my list is: OSU - Comparative Studies Northwestern - Comparative Studies Emory - Comparative Literature Duke - Literature UMN - Comparative Literature Not sure how strong they are in your field, however.

It seems to me that you have some options unless you need to stick to English as your discipline. For instance, Duke Literature, Emory Comparative Literature, and UMN Comparative Literature all have some support for psychoanalytic theory. Most departments at least have that one person doing it and many departments strong in Feminism or film studies will also have it. As for Copjec, you'll have to apply to Brown's Modern Culture & Media department.

Such questions betray a lot of naivete on the part of the questioner and can easily be turned around. Why is something practical superior unless it's also intrinsically worthwhile and interesting. What does it mean for something to be "practical" anyhow? Philosophy is practical since the process skills learned are quite useful in all fields. Why does that not count? The discourse of practicality is a way of asking you why you haven't decided to limit yourself to a specific technical field because of its purported economic relevance. Those bets often don't turn out well since the economy is not easy to predict. Going into something practical because it's practical is quite impractical unless there is also intrinsic interest. So the best answer is that you study philosophy because you want to and doing what you want is the most practical thing in the world because those are the things you can sustain for the long haul. The rest of the questions are essentially variations on this theme.

Apply and see what happens. If you don't get in then take a bunch of philosophy courses at your local CC with good marks then reapply the following season.

Hey, I'll be attending LSU's philosophy program this Fall and am open to finding roommates too.

I applied to MA programs with the hope that I might get some funding despite not having had philosophy as my undergraduate major. At this point, I am on the funding waitlist for LSU and UMT and was given partial tuition remission from AU so I'm deciding between going to AU or not going to graduate school with hopes of getting off of one of the funding waitlists in the back of my mind. DC is so expensive that it seems like even with the partial tuition remission and finding a part-time job, that I would still have to take on an uncomfortable debt burden.

Stanford actually offers a dual JD/PhD program as do many other schools.

I can claim the Miami (OH) rejection. My application was a mixed bag considering that my undergraduate major was in modern culture & media as opposed to philosophy and that 2 out of my 3 recommendations were from non-philosophy professors. I didn't cultivate very close relationships with my professors and so asked the few that I felt would likely remember me. These are the reasons why I only applied to MA programs and, to my credit, I have been accepted into most of them. Right now I'm waiting to see if I'm lucky enough to get off of any of the funding waitlists that I'm on.