lordclive

I am also on the waitlist at CUNY. Were you at the Open House? Still keeping my fingers crossed.

I am well aware that the stipend amount is actually meaningless - $1000 gets you very different places depending on which city/town/village you find yourself in. This is a fact. I just want to know which schools are pushing their humanities departments by amping up the money being thrown around. I hope to identify which schools are still allowing English departments to thrive by giving them the means to do so and which schools are imposing budget cuts on their humanities departments. Duke's Program in Lit has been targeted with budget cuts in recent years - to identify one high-profile department that is suffering from the machinations of neoliberal ideology.

This question has probably been asked and answered before in other avatars. But I'm going to do it again, because I'm looking for information specific to last year's cycle; if that's possible given the circumstances. So here it goes -- Which school offers the highest stipend? I know that some schools give lower stipends but also put lesser teaching load, some schools (like Harvard) give a lot of money but are criminal in the amount of teaching they force every graduate student to do. I don't care about these contingencies. I simply want to know which school puts the most in your bank account. I've heard that its Stanford, if you do DH stuff. I've also heard that Vanderbilt has some ridiculous fellowships upwards of 35K per year for 5 years. UC schools (except Berkeley and LA) are generally tight-fisted, but you can blame that on idiot politicians. It might also be Northwestern; the Chronicle ran an article a few months ago about how it was amping up its stipends to get better grad students. Who was it last year? Which school gave the fattest stipend?