themomo

They're basically different programs of study. Check out the grad student manual on the department website and take a gander at the forms for planning your course load. Don't know what the breakdown will be this year, but admissions-wise it'll just determine which batch of folks you'll be up against in the consideration process, probably. TCS gets a couple (or has before) and literary studies gets a couple, too. My ethos: 5th year literary studies Ph.D. candidate at ol' P.U.

It's possible to do it, but it might be hard if you're teaching in the English department (I think your little sidebar thing says that's your program.) We teach five days a week and it'll take you about an hour each way to and from Indy. For your first two years you're looking at driving two hours a day every day while teaching/taking classes. Some folks do it, though, but I'm not sure what effect it's had on their experience here.