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Gatz, I just noticed a few days ago (can't believe I missed this)--there is an interdisciplinary studies subforum under Humanities. There's a lot more stuff I'm interested in therein--and maybe you as well, if you're looking for the same sort of thing as me? At the very least you would probably get a lot more responses if you posted this thread in that forum.

The Paul Fry course is great but sort of useless if you aren't actively reading the texts.

Just posting to echo the original poster: does anyone know of specific programs/schools?

The Cullers one is both barely readable and (sometimes) misinformed. It's incredibly reductive pertaining to specific schools and (at least a few times) misuses terminology and conflates theories. It's a terrible way to get the context of Theory. And again, his writing style leaves much to be desired. I'll agree with the Norton. It's great: expansive, organized, and contextual.

OK, so I'll be graduating with an MFA in Creative Writing next May--overall, I've been disappointed with my program. Without going into detail--it's a pure workshop program, with little emphasis on literature and theory, and it is steeped in traditionalism and closed to cross-genre studies, i.e. everything I am interested in. So now I'm looking around for PhD programs, but I don't know where to start. I know I don't want to do a PhD in Creative Writing, because I can't imagine another 3 years of workshops or just another 3 years around Creative Writers. Ideally, I'd like to do something with a theory/philosophy emphasis--but also creative work. What I'd like to write isn't fiction or traditional literature, but something that blurs the lines between philosophy, poetry, and theory. Does anyone on here know any programs like this? (I was told to check out University of California in San Diego, for their mixed genre studies.) Edit: I suppose I should specify what types of theory and philosophy I'm into. I've seen other people on here refer to continental philosophy--well, yes, I'm interested in that. Specifically, Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze, Cixous, Baudrillard, Foucault. I'm also highly interested (in theory) in Queer theory, though I haven't explored it much yet.