BeeRuckus Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Hello! I'm new here, and nervously applying to the following PhD programs: UT-Austin UPenn U Chicago Northwestern Berkeley (Rhetoric) Vanderbilt UMass Amherst WashU Brown NYU (Comp Lit) Villanova (M.A.) Law and literature/19th and 20th century transatlantic lit/postcolonial (have a JD and have been practicing law for the past few years....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustquail Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Duke Vanderbilt SUNY Albany U Maryland Berkeley UPenn U Michigan Brown Boston U Yale 18th/19th Transatlantic studies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosemaryJuniper Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Columbia Cornell Harvard Yale Notre Dame Fordham Medieval lit/manuscript studies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssundva Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Brown (Modern Culture and Media) U of Florida Duke (Literature) Suny -- Stony Brook (Cultural Studies) Suny- Albany FSU (HOTT) UT-Austin (DLL) U of Minnesota U of Rhode Island Stanford (MTL) Emory I research posthumanism, technicity, hypertext and Deleuze and Guattari wreckofthehope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medievalmaniac Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Â On 12/20/2010 at 1:29 AM, RosemaryJuniper said: Columbia Cornell Harvard Yale Notre Dame Fordham Medieval lit/manuscript studies RosemaryJuniper - I know it's Down South, but if you're really interested in medieval and especially manuscript studies, can I suggest Florida State, also? Elaine Treharne...Also, I heard David Johnson giving a talk at the Southeastern Medieval Association conference this past fall and apparently they have a program in book studies, including specifically manuscript work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestranger009 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 English PhD programs at: UC Riverside University of Oregon University of Washington University of Chicago UIC Washington University in St. Louis University of Florida University of Miami concentration in science fiction and postmodernism, with a side of comics . . . wreckofthehope 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jprufrock Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Stanford Berkeley UPenn Columbia UCLA UChicago NYU Vanderbilt Mixed-race studies/postcolonialism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolfie Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 It seems like there aren't that many people applying to terminal MA programs. Is anyone applying to places like UConn, Delaware or Vermont? All three have funded MAs so I thought the competition would be up there. But I haven't heard of anyone applying there, especially Vermont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bck203 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) I'm applying only to MA programs: Oregon, Delaware, Vermont, Portland State University, UMass-Boston, Villanova, Georgetown, University of Houston. Had I realized earlier on how bad the funding situation was, I might have applied to PhDs with the intention of leaving after the MA...oh well. I really didn't feel ready to apply to PhDs. I'm guessing those programs do have lots of applicants, but they just aren't lurking on this forum as much. Edited December 22, 2010 by bck203 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolfie Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I'm applying only to MA programs: Oregon, Delaware, Vermont, Portland State University, UMass-Boston, Villanova, Georgetown, University of Houston. Had I realized earlier on how bad the funding situation was, I might have applied to PhDs with the intention of leaving after the MA...oh well. I really didn't feel ready to apply to PhDs. I'm guessing those programs do have lots of applicants, but they just aren't lurking on this forum as much. What is your area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bck203 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) What is your area? I really have no idea (which is a big part of why I did not feel ready for PhD programs!), but my writing sample was on 20th century fiction and my personal statement somehow tied together Latin American lit, foodways studies, gender studies and contemporary poetry. I've also done a lot of teaching/tutoring and am really interested in experiential writing pedagogies. I have no idea if I will get in anywhere...haha. Edited December 22, 2010 by bck203 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marginalia Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 PhD programs: Brown Princeton Syracuse IU Bloomington Northwestern WashU U Iowa I'm hoping to specialize in Victorian lit and gender/sexuality studies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poco_puffs Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 English PhD programs at: concentration in science fiction and postmodernism, with a side of comics . . . Are you looking at Ben Saunders at Oregon for the comics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapelosa Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Columbia NYU Harvard WashU Fordham Toronto Indiana Virginia Georgetown Arizona State I'm only halfway done with applications! And I'm re-writing my letter of application each time. Medieval Literature: the marvelous and the fantastic; gender and sexuality; spatiality and temporality; visuality, perception, the imagination. Psychoanalytic theory, unsurprisingly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosemaryJuniper Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 RosemaryJuniper - I know it's Down South, but if you're really interested in medieval and especially manuscript studies, can I suggest Florida State, also? Elaine Treharne...Also, I heard David Johnson giving a talk at the Southeastern Medieval Association conference this past fall and apparently they have a program in book studies, including specificallymanuscript work as well. Whoops, goes to show how often I'm on the fora... I definitely considered Florida State for the reasons you mention, but when I was narrowing my choices (mainly for reasons of finance!) I pretty much randomly decided not to apply. Silly and arbitrary, really, but I honestly just want the application process to be over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereandbackagain Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I'm hoping for an MFA program, but applied to one PhD and three MA programs as well. I'm really hoping that I won't have to do this again next year. Focus in any of the lit programs would be women's and gender studies, queer studies, postcolonial theory, poetics, North American literature since 1900. I am particularly looking at silencing in literature and theory. MFA (poetry)/PhD (literature): Cornell MFA (poetry): Texas - Michener, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Virginia Commonwealth, Old Dominion, Alabama, Arkansas, LSU, McNeese, West Virginia, South Carolina, WashU - St. Louis, Michigan - Ann Arbor, Wisconsin - Madison, Illinois UC, S Illinois - Carbondale, Kansas MA in Lit: U Louisville, Miami - Ohio, and Brandeis (joint MA with Women's and Gender Studies) edited to add focus.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 My area of interest concerns the interplay of relgious and nonreligious texts, specifically how the Bible (the English translations and how it was interprested) has shaped fiction and nonreligious literature. I have sort of broken this down to two different time periods and have applied to schools that fall into one or the other. For applying my interest to Milton/Early Modern period, I have applied to: Wisconsin Northwestern UIC WUSTL And Early American/Puritanism: Brandeis Rutgers Brown Notre Dame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustquail Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 thanks to a heads up from a poster here, i decided to throw a last minute application at Vanderbilt. they have a few people working on caribbean lit so i don't know how i missed it my first time. it said they no longer require the subject test, so maybe they did when i looked at it before. Yay! I'm applying there too. The campus is supposed to be really beautiful....and I think they have the best funding of any program I've seen so far. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottles Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I second everyone who has said they cannot wait until they start hearing back! I only applied to Arizona State and the University of Florida for their PhD in literature programs. I focus on psychology in Cold War literature. I split my applications this round: 2 are going to PhD in literature schools, and 4 are going to library science schools...I am passionate about literature, original research, and teaching...but the state of the humanities in this country kept me from applying anywhere I wasn't dying to go. I just recently turned 21 and will be graduating this spring with two degrees, so I guess my rationale is that I have time to reassess my situation in the future if things don't work out! Good luck to everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustquail Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 yeah their funding seems insane (and from glancing at craigslist it doesn't seem like the cost of living in nashville is terrible). ugh i am so ready for it to be february so we can start hearing back already! SERIOUSLY. I actually just submitted my vanderbilt app today, but I feel like I've already been waiting for a while now. What to do in the meantime....I guess I'll just read a lot of books. Hopefully that will pay off in the future. How do you feel about your apps? I'm still having a rollercoster feeling...one minute i think i'll get acceptances, the next I imagine adcoms laughing at my application.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRC Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 English PhD: Chicago Penn State Columbia Albany Buffalo Other related dept's in sig. AOI: Psychoanalysis, animal studies, critical theory, american literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alyanumbers Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 English PhD: Chicago Penn State Columbia Albany Buffalo Other related dept's in sig. AOI: Psychoanalysis, animal studies, critical theory, american literature. I see you're applying to Cornell for Comp Lit. Come play with us in the Comp Lit Roll Call thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherJake Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Hi everybody. I've been lurking for a while so I figured I'd say hello. Even though I've been planning to go to grad school for years and years (I was one of those English majors who wants to change the world and affect people and so on), I finally applied at the somewhat-last-minute this year. I'm currently teaching high school on the South Side of Chicago (and this is my first year teaching by myself as a full teacher), so I only had time to throw together a handful of applications. I did my best though. Fingers crossed! But if I don't get into a Ph.D, I plan to do an M.A. and just try, try again. Applied to: Columbia, Ph.D English (Yeah, right) NYU, Ph.D English CUNY Graduate Center, Ph.D English (can you tell where I want to live?) Rutgers Newark, M.A. English Northwestern, M.A. Literature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeamCoco-Bollo Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 New to the board, but here's the list of schools I'm looking into: English PhD: SUNY-Buffalo UIC SUNY-Stony Brook St. Louis University (SLU) SUNY-Albany Syracuse Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) Cultural Studies PhD: Minnesota George Mason Area of Interest: 20th/21st Century American, Neoliberalism/Globalization (Political Economy), Popular Culture, Hardboiled Crime Fiction and Film Noir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyonessrampant Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Hey, So I've been lurking a while and decided to say hi more formally. I'm applying to a ton of places because I really want to start my Ph.D. next year. Hear's hoping something works out! All English Ph.D. Harvard Stanford Brown UC-Berkeley Duke U of Chicago UT-Austin UWI-Madison CU-Boulder U of Oregon UWA-Seattle U of Utah WashU U of Minnesota Interests: Early Modern Poetry (about 1590-1620 specifically), critical theory (psychoanalysis, gender studies, and strucuralism/poststructuralism), late Medieval hagiography Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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