lunalee

Thanks, kid_grape...I really hope you get your acceptance soon! I know that sick feeling all too well.

Fantastic idea! Turns out Yale has a professor dedicated to looking at the performance of race and freedom during the antebellum period. They also have Thomas deFrantz who is AMAZING! On the other hand, Northwestern has a Performance Studies department with several faculty members that tangle with questions of race. This is definitely food for thought...

Though I'm no longer awaiting responses (applied to Northwestern, Princeton and Yale/Accepted by Northwestern and Yale, Rejected by Princeton), the anxiety is still there. Now, I'm worried about making the wrong choice or looking like an idiot in front of my future professors and cohort...oh well. I am leaning toward Yale. I will be entering grad school directly from undergrad and my focus is Contemporary American and African-American art. I'm very interested in visual humor and I want to look at contemporary permutations of the blackface minstrel figure in the works of African-American artists. I love Ellen Gallagher's work; she is probably my favorite at the moment. I am also moved by Carrie Mae Weems, Chakaia Booker, Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden.

Thanks ElusiveMuse! I am really excited because Yale was my longest long shot. I hadn't even given myself permission to hope that I'd get in. I understand assuming rejection as an act of self-preservation...I will keep my fingers crossed for you. If it helps, I don't think they've sent out all of their acceptances yet. I believe they might still be making final decisions. So, keep hope alive!

For those of you who haven't heard from Yale, I'm in the same boat. I have been invited to the Alumni weekend, but I don't know if I've been accepted. I'm wondering if this is the same for anyone else? I am keeping my fingers crossed! Edited to Add: Holy Cow! Just got the unofficial email that I've been accepted to both the Art History and Af. Am. Studies doctoral programs at Yale!!!!