Quickening

Best of luck to all applicants this year! May your application seasons be blessedly anxiety-free.

I think it’s safe to say that everyone still waiting on CUNY is trying to read the tea leaves and figure out where they stand and why. To that end, I think our respective readings might be made easier if we mentioned our areas of interest: I’m pretty broadly working in post-45 novel, ecocriticism, postcolonial, theories of the avant-garde, and an irregular category that doesn’t really exist but which I’ll call the rhetoric of finance.

NYU Department of English will not be accepting PhD applications for 2021, as per their information page for prospective students. Same for their Department of Comparative Literature. At the risk of being inflammatory, it is a bit disillusioning to see NYU embark on such an austere course when you consider the extortionate price of their MA programs. Perhaps someone on the inside could led some insight to the decision.

Congrats! I also got accepted to Buffalo today...by some miracle. My acceptance process was identical: generic email, multi-page attachment on the site, etc. etc. Good luck to all other applicants!