UVA: Waiting It Out

[Horb]

I applied to UVA and have not yet been rejected. I'm holding out hope that I made it to round 2 of the application cycle and that maybe an offer will be extended my way. Anyone else waiting and want to talk about the program, what made it appealing, potential faculty you want to work with? Or really just anything. 

[davidipse]

I applied to UVA and have not yet been rejected. I'm holding out hope that I made it to round 2 of the application cycle and that maybe an offer will be extended my way. Anyone else waiting and want to talk about the program, what made it appealing, potential faculty you want to work with? Or really just anything. 

 

Pretty much every paper I've written on Modernism has something by Jahan Ramazani in the bibiliography. I like his work on elegy and T. S. Eliot.

 

I also really enjoy Rita Dove's poetry. I like how she can be "political" but still subtle.

 

(And in my romanticized ideas of the school, UVa still has some vague British and early American tinge to it, with all its weird nomenclature and secret societies etc.)

 

Can I ask what field(s) did you apply to study?

Edited February 18, 2014 by davidipse

[Horb]

I am a Victorianist, but I focus on the application of violence theory (Zizek, Galtung, Foucault) to the Victorian novel. I'm really intrigued lately with the idea of corsets/bodices and clothing as forms of institutionalized violence. So I see you got into Cambridge. That is pretty amazing! Congrats!

[hj2012]

Good luck, everyone!

UVA is my undergrad alma mater, and I had nothing but positive experiences in the English department. Charlottesville is wonderful small town too, if you're into that kind of thing.

[elizabethevrhrt]

I am a Victorianist, but I focus on the application of violence theory (Zizek, Galtung, Foucault) to the Victorian novel. I'm really intrigued lately with the idea of corsets/bodices and clothing as forms of institutionalized violence. So I see you got into Cambridge. That is pretty amazing! Congrats!

 

I'm a Victorianist as well.... I'm also DYING to hear. I think that your corsets/bodices idea sounds really interesting. I hope that you get the chance to write it!

 

I'm interested in a lot of different areas but I usually work with questions of the family/children or science (medicine, animals, etc.) I'm planning a HUGE project on Victorian adoption... hopefully my future dissertation!

[Horb]

Yeah. Right now, I have about 50 pages written for my undergrad thesis. It'll be about 75 total and I'm really hoping to expand upon it for the MA and PhD dissertations. 

[elizabethevrhrt]

Yeah. Right now, I have about 50 pages written for my undergrad thesis. It'll be about 75 total and I'm really hoping to expand upon it for the MA and PhD dissertations. 

 

Wow, that's great! My senior thesis got to about 35 pages before my advisor had me scale it down so I could use it for my writing sample. I'm happier with the smaller size but I know if I expanded my research base I could go crazy!

[Horb]

Yeah my first chapter was my writing sample. Ours have to be MA thesis length. It is part of the requirement. 

[elizabethevrhrt]

Yeah my first chapter was my writing sample. Ours have to be MA thesis length. It is part of the requirement. 

 

That must have been really good prep then. Glad you got the chance to write something that large.

[Horb]

Yeah. it is my second paper of this length. My other one was a 1 credit independent study. 

[Horb]

And so it has begun!!!