Modern Thought & Literature @ Stanford?

[incognegra]

Hello,

 

Can anyone comment on whether MTL at Stanford would be an appropriate program for someone who is not strongly invested in studying literature in itself? The interdisciplinary nature of the program and the presence of faculty working on STS/ecocriticism are appealing to me but I'm having trouble getting a sense of whether the ultimate focus of the program is literary study. If it is, that would be a problem for me.

 

Thanks!

Edited October 27, 2013 by incognegra

[ProfLorax]

I don't know much about the program, so hopefully someone else can give you some specific info. Until then, I suggest looking at the bios of current grad students and their interests. Looking at current students' interests, my immediate impression is that MTL truly is interdisciplinary and not primarily literary focused. 

 

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MTL/cgi-bin/drupal/mtlstudents

[wreckofthehope]

When I was applying, the then program director told me that the program was intended for people whose work could not be done in a single-discipline department. So, interdisciplinarity needs to be a central feature of your project. Don't know if that really answers your question, certainly not directly anyway...but it might be of some help.

[incognegra]

Thanks for your replies.