Hey :-)
So, I was wondering whether anybody here could give me his/her opinion on my case.
I got accepted for the PhD program at the Department for English (UT) for this Fall, but I will conduct research exclusively in Linguistics. They do have a handfull of researchers who are doing Linguistics in the English Department, one of them will be one of my two main advisors. The other advisor works in the actual Linguistics Department. We already set thing up, even a research project that I will work on, which is great. However, I will be a TA at the English Department, teaching/ assisting in literature and/or rhetoric classes, but I will only take Linguistic classes myself.
It all sounds good to me, but I am just a little worried about a couple of things: Will it be negative for my prospective CV if I only teach literature, but not linguistics (concerning future job positions)? Where will I truly belong to - the English or the Linguistics Department? (Yes, officially, it is the English Department that I am working for, but I am studying Linguistics..). Will I be "in between"? Will people view me as a colleague in the Linguistics Department?
I am thankful for any thoughts/ideas/advice!
Not that it matters, but I'm an international student, so I might not be aware of some things that will be obvious for you.