Af-Am Roll Call

[WildeThing]

Curious as to how anyone with an interest in African American lit has done this cycle, especially since I'm mostly seeing Early Moderns, Modernists and Victorianists on the board. I'm mostly in turn of the century narrative, fyi.

[mads47]

While I would mostly classify myself as a Modernist, a significant part of my SOP outlined research on African American women novelists and poets in the early 20th century (mainly in New York).

With this as the crux of my research, I seem to be doing pretty well this cycle. I got into one school with better funding than I dreamed, and I'm still waiting for responses from about half of the places I applied. I feel incredibly lucky about this, because I don't have an MA and I did not go to a top-tier school for undergrad. 

[LexHex]

I'm an AfAm lit person. Not doing great, but I did not apply to enough schools (I was being extremely picky on "fit" and now I know what to look for to broaden myself next time).

[WildeThing]

15 minutes ago, mads47 said:

While I would mostly classify myself as a Modernist, a significant part of my SOP outlined research on African American women novelists and poets in the early 20th century (mainly in New York).

With this as the crux of my research, I seem to be doing pretty well this cycle. I got into one school with better funding than I dreamed, and I'm still waiting for responses from about half of the places I applied. I feel incredibly lucky about this, because I don't have an MA and I did not go to a top-tier school for undergrad. 

 

7 minutes ago, LexHex said:

I'm an AfAm lit person. Not doing great, but I did not apply to enough schools (I was being extremely picky on "fit" and now I know what to look for to broaden myself next time).

Would you care sharing what schools? I’m wondering if we can discover any trends or figure our chances out by pooling the info together.

[a_sort_of_fractious_angel]

I'm a mostly contemporary person (21st American with 20th century frame) and do diasporic/hemispheric lit (Caribbean). In every one of my SOPs, I aligned myself with at least one POI who had a primary focus on Af-Am.

4 acceptances; 3 rejections; 4 implied rejections (though these don't count until they do!); waiting on 3 - signature gives deets. I'm pleased with my results this season given how I framed myself in the WS/SOP and my background (BA & MA) - I'm happy to discuss my application, my successful apps, and my theories as to why I got in where via PM.

 

Edited February 17, 2018 by a_sort_of_fractious_angel

[LexHex]

@Wildthing I am waiting on UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara

[Noire et Étrange]

Glad to see this thread emerge! I'm interested in Af-Am performance & cultural history in the late twentieth century and applied to two English programs (and 8 others). Accepted to UPenn, and still waiting on a response from Columbia. 

[themoderncondition]

I’m nineteenth century Af-Am and eighteenth-century transatlantic. Interested in cultural expressions in subject formation—minstrelsy, lit of lynching, clothing, voodoo, folklore, performance, material culture/thing theory. Accepted to Stony Brook and Temple. Received an addition Grad Council Fellowship at SB. Rejected from Penn and Princeton. Assumed rejections Yale and NYU. Waiting on Rutgers (prob a no) and Fordham. 

[a_sort_of_fractious_angel]

3 hours ago, themoderncondition said:

I’m nineteenth century Af-Am and eighteenth-century transatlantic. Interested in cultural expressions in subject formation—minstrelsy, lit of lynching, clothing, voodoo, folklore, performance, material culture/thing theory. Accepted to Stony Brook and Temple. Received an addition Grad Council Fellowship at SB. Rejected from Penn and Princeton. Assumed rejections Yale and NYU. Waiting on Rutgers (prob a no) and Fordham. 

Hey, fellow Temple admit! 

[themoderncondition]

Hey @a_sort_of_fractious_angel! I’ll be turning down Temple bc of the commute for me (North Jersey). I know you have great options to pick from this cycle too—probably Princeton?

[a_sort_of_fractious_angel]

4 hours ago, themoderncondition said:

Hey @a_sort_of_fractious_angel! I’ll be turning down Temple bc of the commute for me (North Jersey). I know you have great options to pick from this cycle too—probably Princeton?

Hey! That makes total sense re: the commute. Princeton looks unlikely for me (as does Rutgers, lol) but CMU, Buffalo, and Delaware are options. Congrats on Stony Brook!

[M(allthevowels)H]

Hey! I'm (long) 19th Century American/African American/Posthumanism. It's a long story, but I swear it all works together. I have three acceptances, and six holes of infinite screaming silence that are probably rejections marinating. Just rip off the Band-Aid CUNY!