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I'm currently in a French MA program and considering applying to PhD programs for Fall 2011. I was originally going to take a year off and work, to better determine that I really did want to continue my studies, but after only a few months of working in an office, I knew that I wanted to go back to school.
Cutting out a lot of the details, my basic situation is that I am now in an MA program that I don't like. There are quite a few non-traditional students, and I feel that the intellectual level of the graduates is not terribly high. My big complaint (among many) is that the two French literature courses I am taking are cross-listed as undergrad courses - there aren't any lit courses specifically for graduate students. I think this is a tad inappropriate, although I would like to hear someone else's opinion.
I am not sure whether I should just suck it up and finish my MA and then apply for PhD programs for Fall 2012, or if it would be better to just apply directly to PhD programs for Fall 2011. Any advice would be appreciated .
I am currently considering the following programs - Stanford, Cornell, UPenn, Northwestern, U Michigan, Harvard, Yale, JHU, and Brown. Obviously I most likely won't apply to all of these, but these are some possibilities.
French - Fall 2011
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To be honest, I chose 20th century because I couldn't really narrow down my preference to one century. For the 20th, though, I'm interested in l'Oulipo, especially Robbe Grillet, and to a certain extent l'Oubapo.
Otherwise, my interests are in theories of performance, specifically performance involving music (i.e. troubadour lyric, opera, etc.), and perception/presentation of gender. Right now, I am particularly interested in representations of feminine madness, especially from 19th and 20th century opera (Donizetti, Thomas, Strauss, etc.) but also from French literature (Flaubert, Françoise Sagan, etc.).