Choosing a program

[leb]

Hi!

I'm having a hard time finding school that is a good fit for me. I have an MA from UNLV (4.0 when I graduated), where I did my undergrad, and I want to go for my PhD someplace else. My interests are literary theory and victorian book illustration (especially children's books/ fairy tales), and comic books (image/text). My thesis is on the illustrations of a children's book from 1889 by Oscar Wilde. The MA from UNLV is kind of a blight on my CV, but I think that if I could find a school that fit my interests really well, it might not matter. I'm happy to move anywhere, US, UK, or Canada.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Lea

[Sparky]

Who are your favorite scholars in your subfield? Who has written the major secondary works on Victorian picture books? Whose work have you cited in *all* your papers? Find out where they teach. Look at the lit reviews at the beginning of the articles you cite, or in the footnotes. Where do *those* scholars teach?

[bigdgp]

Hi!

I'm having a hard time finding school that is a good fit for me. I have an MA from UNLV (4.0 when I graduated), where I did my undergrad, and I want to go for my PhD someplace else. My interests are literary theory and victorian book illustration (especially children's books/ fairy tales), and comic books (image/text). My thesis is on the illustrations of a children's book from 1889 by Oscar Wilde. The MA from UNLV is kind of a blight on my CV, but I think that if I could find a school that fit my interests really well, it might not matter. I'm happy to move anywhere, US, UK, or Canada.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Lea

For Children's Lit I would check out Pitt, and look at Rutgers for Victorian Lit.

[augustquail]

It would probably be easier to start your search by finding programs that have excellent constellations of victorianists. That way, once you have a larger list, you can narrow it down based on who might have other faculty working in children's lit/graphic novels.

[greekdaph]

Check out Indiana-Bloomington. Great Victorian program, and the library has a big collection of children's books: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/overview/lit_child.shtml