LineOfFlight

I'm waitlisted at UPenn!! Gives me hope again after only having received rejections so far. Nerve-racking stuff...

I had a Skype interview for a comp lit program yesterday. Should I send the people who interviewed me an e-mail to thank them? This is not a common thing to do at all in the country where I live so I'm not really sure in what cases you should send one.

Hi, I'm currently in the process of applying to Yale's PhD program in English. I'm a bit confused about the payment of the application fee. The website of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences states the following: 'Visa and Mastercard are the only accepted means of payment.' I do have a Mastercard, but this is a prepaid debit card, and the page also mentions: ' Debit cards and credit card debit authorizations are not accepted. ' Does this mean I can't pay the application fee with my Mastercard debit card?

Hi, I received my GRE score report today. I really messed up on the Analytical Writing part and got a score of 3.5. My Verbal score is 166 and my Quant score is 154. Does the good score for Verbal balance out the AW score? Is it worth it to retake the GRE if I'm trying to get accepted to a PhD in English / Comparative Literature, or should I not worry about it and focus on the writing sample and SoP? Some additional information: I'm an international student and English isn't my native language. I have a 3.73 undergrad GPA and a 4.0 GPA for my MA.

As for the first topic, I would recommend checking out the work of Silvia Federici. She's a contemporary scholar who focuses on certain blind spots in Marx's analysis of capitalism, in particular regarding the relation between patriarchy and (the rise of) capitalism. I'm not really sure if/how you could relate that to existentialism/absurdism, though.

1) I'm not sure yet. Either obtain a position in the US or go back to Europe and try to find something there. I know it's not easy to find jobs in this field. 2) I don't have specific works in mind yet. In my country (The Netherlands), comparative literature programs are in general more focused on critical and interdisciplinary approaches to literature (critical theory/cultural analysis), while 'national literature' departments like English or Dutch are more 'traditional' in the sense that there is more emphasis on literary history/'the canon' of a specific national sphere. Maybe it's different in the US. The languages I would be able to work in are English, Dutch and (to a lesser extent) German and French. Focusing on anglophone literature/media alone would definitely be possible for me, although that seems overly limiting to me. Do English departments allow students to research translated works of literature? Is it in general necessary to read literary works in their original language, for Comparative Literature programs as well?

Hi everyone, I'm planning on applying for PhD programs for fall 2020. I'm not from the US and the amount of universities in the US with graduate programs in comparative literature and related fields is a bit overwhelming to me. Maybe someone can help me out. In my research I want to focus on the representation of climate change and ecocide in literature, but perhaps also in film/tv shows/graphic novels etc., and probably approach it specifically as a formal problem (i.e. what kind of literary/artistic forms are able to convey this situation). So what I'm looking for is a (comparative) literature program that encourages interdisciplinary research and that already has scholars doing research related to ecocriticism and aesthetics. I'm especially interested in hearing what options there are for me in the East Coast or the Midwest. One program that I already know for sure I want to apply to is the Literature program at Duke University, because of it's emphasis on (marxist) aesthetics and its inter-/transdisciplinary approach to comparative literature. Are there any programs similar to that one? Thanks!