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Philadelphia, PA
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Interests
Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, Marxist theory, genre theory
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2019 Fall
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English/interdisciplinary Humanities
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sad_diamond replied to 012345's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I think one effective strategy is to identify a few journals that interest you, read the abstracts for all or most of the essays those journals published over the last few years, and then--if you have access--read several of the essays that sound most interesting to you. If you don't have access, lots of scholars are very amenable to sending you pdfs if you email them. This website has descriptions of most of the major journals in the humanities, so it's a really good tool for figuring out which journals might interest you. This is also a good way to find programs; if you like an essay and it -
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sad_diamond replied to goldfinch1880's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Just turned down Columbia and Rutgers!! -
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sad_diamond replied to dilby's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Just accepted Penn's offer! -
What to ask during visits?
sad_diamond replied to dilby's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I was an undergrad English major at Brown and I took two grad seminars there so if you have any specific questions you want to PM me about I can try to answer them! -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
These are my things! I'll definitely post here once i make a decision after visit days. -
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sad_diamond replied to WildeThing's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
@toxicmoss If both programs are genuinely interesting to you, then there's really nothing you can do but wait to make a decision until after visits. you really get an enormous amount of information out of them that i don't think you can get any other way. -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Accepted at Rutgers got a nice phone call from a POI. funny to me that i did well with traditional English programs and poorly with interdisciplinary programs when i thought it would be the opposite. -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Just got accepted at Penn! Got a call from the DGS, and he said he has more phone calls to make, so there's still hope! -
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Just got a really very kind rejection email from UCI
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Where's Penn tho??
sad_diamond replied to Fedallah's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
Penn is closed today! I live in Philly -
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sad_diamond replied to WildeThing's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
UPenn is closed today b/c of snow 😕 -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I'm wondering the same thing RE Irvine! -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
I got into Columbia ! -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
@mandelbulb pm me! -
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sad_diamond replied to Englishtea1's topic in Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition
@veroniquea See you there! Have you gotten an itinerary yet? I'm excited to find out what's planned...