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he did, if i remember correctly. i haven't received anything yet. still waiting. you?

anyone want to claim that u of c acceptance?

i'm comp lit; main interests are french and english modernisms, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, critical theory/marxism. i'm particularly interested questions of form and presentation in philosophy, and the relationship between negative theoretical projects and modernism. what about you?

doesn't sound like there was any bright side there; during this perilous time, every email is a dark potentiality.

i just received an invite for the literature program, two hours ago.

just received an invite to the interview weekend! good luck to everyone!

hi guys, i see that a few folks have received interview requests from JHU and that one person has received a rejection. was the rejection solicited? could those who received interview invitations say a bit more? thanks, vt

fyi on tiwonda - i emailed her and the department chair yesterday. that's the language she used in her email to me, but the department chair used different language; she said that they had not finalized the list and that they would be sending out more. honestly, i'm going to listen to the dept chair over the coordinator.

any duke news today?

anyone want to claim that third, most recent duke invitation?

who got the WashU acceptance?

Here's the email: Thanks for your inquiry. No, we are still in the process of sorting out whom we will be able to invite. We should know within the next few days. Kate Hayles

I contacted the department - they haven't sent out all invites. There's still hope.

looks like someone else was also notified

i'm lit yeah. last year the interview notifications went out at different times.

man, i really hope that they haven't sent them all out already. now i am nervous as hell.

damn, i applied to cornell but haven't heard anything. did they email you tonight? congratulations, btw! in my original post, anxiety took over, and i forgot that that's a tremendous achievement.

sorry if i seemed biting in my post - i have no desire to defend stanley fish! i think you're right, it does institute a hierarchy. i'll have to think more on this.

wait... but his point with the milton reading is that it isn't a distant reading. it's a formalist-linguistic reading, but it certainly isn't "possible because of the rising significance of distant reading." as he points out: "The direction of my inferences is critical: first the interpretive hypothesis and then the formal pattern, which attains the status of noticeability only because an interpretation already in place is picking it out. The direction is the reverse in the digital humanities: first you run the numbers, and then you see if they prompt an interpretive hypothesis." he is concerned with "matters of statistical frequency and pattern," but i take his point to be that analysis always has been concerned with such things; the direction of inference of traditional analysis is just entirely opposite of that of the digital humanities. new trends in distant reading don't make possible the kind of analysis he does in the article (see, for instance, Nabokov's frequent use of linguistic tools to perform readings), but in fact perverts the kind of reading he performs. i don't know if i agree with his claims, but i do think the above post is a misreading.

tillium, did you read stanley fish's recent op-ed in the nytimes about the digital humanities (the most recent one, in which he begins with a formalist analysis of milton's areopagitica)? i'm wondering how digital humanities folks feel about the argument he makes.

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yeah, you would have to go to the interview weekend. it's part of the application process.

questions of darstellung in philosophy, the positive aspects of negative theoretical projects (specifically those of adorno and derrida), relationship between continental philosophy and literature, french and english modernisms (joyce, beckett, pound, proust, genet). i'm interested in hegelianism generally, but my recent research has revolved around deconstruction and dialectical inquiry, hegel and deconstruction, etc.

and doesn't having your application switched mean that you were rejected by that department? i read back over the language on the app: If you are not admitted to your first-choice Field of Study, do you want to be considered for admission into another Field of Study? If so, please select the Field from the list. Please note that this is not automatic and you may be required to submit additional application materials.

by the way, these are the programs i applied to: duke lit, princeton comp lit, harvard comp lit, johns hopkins humanities center, cornell comp lit, berkeley rhetoric, nyu comp lit, upenn comp lit, columbia eng & comp lit, yale comp lit, university of chicago comp lit, brown comp lit, uc irvine comp lit, university of toronto comp lit (MA), school of the visual arts critical theory and the arts (prominent adorno scholar/translator robert hullot-kentor's new program) has anyone heard anything from any of these programs?