To add my two cents on Tufts:
I was accepted to and visited Tufts in March, and had a great visit. The campus is great, the teaching load is reasonable (one class a semester starting your second year, caps out at 10 students), and the grad students and professors there were really friendly (i.e., they called/emailed after my visit and were very open to all of my questions). Anyway, despite all the gradcafe talk about how gender-centric the professors are, the current students were surprised/laughed at that claim. They said that there are so many professors there approaching literature from so many different approaches that to label Tufts as a gender or feminist based program is a false and limiting claim.
Anyway, I decided not to go to Tufts (mostly because of fit), but I had a nice visit there and would recommend that you not rule the program out. It seems that the students there are very happy.
Hope that helps!