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His children's stories are WONDERFUL! The Happy Prince was my favourite as a child, but I had no clue it was written by Oscar Wilde then! Your thesis sounds great, and yes Ireland is pretty small to be honest. If you ever end up at TCD you'll probably encounter Jarlath Killeen - he interprets all texts as being about sexual repression, he sort of famous for it, but when we got to Dorian Gray, he was like 'We are not going to talk about sex today', and we were all like OMG, and proceeded to try and find the Irishness in Dorian Gray (I don't think we were that successful). Trinity's a great place to study Wilde, the house he was born on is on campus and the family home on Merrion Square is around the corner, and you get to hear all the fun stories about him and Bram Stoker's frenemy-ship while they were at college I really hope you get to do some research there!

Ah this is so exciting! I know there's all that nonsense about having to write about Ireland to be an 'Irish author', but that's a hangover from Yeats and we've kinda moved on from that in Ireland. I took classes in the house where Wilde was born, he went to Trinity, his father was a collector of Irish folklore and his mother wrote nationalist poetry, how Irish can you get? I don't work much on his texts though, Dorian Gray remains a complete mystery to me though I've read it several times. Have you read his children's stories? What's your thesis on? Isn't it hilarious how they're all related or friends? Like Maturin is Wilde's great uncle and Lady Wilde was a friend of Le Fanu's, and Bram Stoker stole Wilde's fiancee and was a cousin of Arthur Conan Doyle... As for myself, I'm a narratologist so I'm hoping to work on a project looking at the structures of key novels across the century: Rackrent, Melmoth, House by the Churchyard, Dracula etc. I'm also interested in some of the lesser know Irish female Gothic novelists of the Romantic period, like Regina Maria Roche and Ann Fuller. Editing because I forgot to mention that the Fianna stuff sounds really interesting!

@Silabus! I just noticed your signature says 19th century Irish! We're so rare! What nineteenth century Irish texts do you work on?

I wasn't at the interview weekend, and to be honest my gut is pushing me toward ND, but I had a great interview with the ND faculty and only exchanged a few brief emails with the BC people, so I'm not going to make a decision until I go over and visit - for all I know the BC peeps are just as wonderful in person! As for Irish lit, its a strength of both BC and ND really. They both have Irish studies programs and lots of links with Irish unis and research groups (not that that would be that exciting for me ). I am developing a slight concern that the ND campus and surrounding area may be like living in a Disneyland version of Ireland - Shamrock Street, Waterford lane, and that fecking leprechaun... Are you in Irish lit also?

Same WT, this cycle started off so promising, my ego has definitely taken a beating this week!

I'm also young and clueless and single, but I think @orphic_mel528 is right (upvote for the marrying later thing). And anyway, I've been in the so-called 'real-world' for two years (chained to a cubicle making money for my boss - as far as I'm concerned there's nothing particularly real about it), and remain single; I don't see how its easier or more difficult to find and maintain a relationship whether your spending all day at an office or all day at a campus. I think academics tend to be a bit introverted and single-minded - those are qualities we need to succeed in this path, and those qualities will remain even if one takes a job outside of academia. Then again, I am the same age as the OP and perpetually single

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the deal is at Columbia with the English/Comparative lit division? From previous posts people have indicated applications are considered separately, depending on if you put comparative lit as your subfield, but I listed a Prof who has had her career in comparative as my POI whereas my subfield is the nineteenth century Anglophone novel. I mean, I don't personally see why this would be a problem intellectual, but now I'm worried my app may fall between the cracks...

Glad I'm not the only one

Congratulations! That's a huge deal! Was it Prof Rivett who phoned you? Right @phoebusrising!? I've worked out that in the past they've spread calls over 2 days, and seeing as its past midnight here if I were to get in they wouldn't call me now. So part of my brain is telling me to go to sleep as I won't know until tomorrow either way, another part is like 'sleep? lol no', and another part is like god you're such a fool for hoping you'll be accepted to Princeton...

You should go ahead and post Yanicus, this is supposed to be a celebratory thread! And anyway, the reason we check results boards is because we'd rather an implied rejection than limbo. Btw if the Princeton offer is you: 1. Congratulations, and 2. I'm already a hot mess and I dare say so are the others still waiting so no harm having your moment!

Same, bit disappointed but that's life. Congratulations @piers_plowman! You're going to have some tough decisions to make!

Wow, there hasn't been a single acceptance on the board, and in the past there's been a whole pile of acceptances on the results board for Cornell. Maybe there's a communications mix-up?

Thanks a mil for that @shoestofollow, the waiting will continue. What subfield are you out of curiosity? There were three interviews on the boards but the only poster who specified their subfield was the early modern person @eadwacer, and it doesn't look like the other two are on the forums!

So you reckon we're all out without an interview? The interviews were posted weeks apart and subfield specific so I was sort of thinking it might only be certain subfields interviewing. Its probably just wishful thinking on my part, but Columbia seems to be a bit inconsistent with their interview policy.

They do in fact offer funding on a competitive basis!

Thanks for letting us know

I just got an email from a program that already accepted me with the subject line 'Congratulations!' causing me to have a heart attack and die. Now I am dead. I am writing this from the great beyond.

Hear hear, it's been a week and a half since I've had a peek from any program and I'm getting all twitchy and nervous

@tvethiopia @ThePomoHipster @orphic_mel528 Congrats guys

@Yanaka you may have already considered this, but the Netherlands has some great options for comparative literature MAs (the two year research programs rather than the 1 year taught). I know Leiden's is supposed to be very good and has a record of placing students in top US PhD programs, and there seems to be scholarships available for non-EU students to do their postgrad in the Netherlands (there's a website, studyinholland.nl).

Congrats!

@claritus are you the Brown poster who said they were shut out last year? I ask cause I think we should start a club But seriously, I've been thinking those of us who managed to turn our applications around should do a thread on how we changed strategies once all the results are in, to help out future applicants. I remember there was a poster last year who struck out and then was accepted to Columbia the following year, and seeing that really helped me stay positive.

NYUuuuuuu.... Where art thouuuuuu.......

Congratulations @claritus!!!

I got my acceptance via email on the 27th, and an official offer via post there during this week. My status on the portals remains the same also. Its possible they have different timelines for different subfields, but at this point I'd guess you're under consideration for the MA if you don't already have one.