aandrzejewski

Hey everyone! I'm a current student at the GC in my fourth year and this year I'm on the recruitment committee and have been thinking a lot about the stress of applying and my constant refreshing gradcafe results pages and obsessive scanning of admitted GRE scores, etc., so I decided to return to see if I could be of help to anyone navigating the process. I will say that, although I'm a early modernist, I've taken a number of courses with Kandice Chuh and Robert Reid-Pharr, two of the GC's central line faculty members working in critical race studies, gender studies, etc. and there's a reason that the GC ranks in the top ten English departments for gender studies. From my perspective, the program's forums, meetings, conferences, and student body are generally dedicated to "failing better," so to speak, when it comes to diversity initiatives. Again, there's not as many early modernists at the GC so I probably get more attention than most (although Mario DiGrangi, my advisor, is currently the EO of the program and still makes time to meet with me and read my work whenever I reach out) but Kandice and Robert have both made time to meet with me on numerous occasions, read and comment on my work, and still check in and say hi if they see me and aren't rushing off--they don't have any obligation to do this. Yes, faculty are stretched thin here, but in my experience that's only made the attention I've gotten all the more evident of why there's no place better than the GC to do this kind of work. Just my perspective--I'll be at the open house if any one wants to talk and ask questions! Feel free to PM me for more details / specifics.