― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:58 (twenty years ago) link
do you think you might rather do tv and comics from within a communications department? (no more novels that way at least)
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
a lot of good schools for pop culture are on the tip of my brain but they arent coming yet.
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
Hahaha, Leee! This was me exactly three years ago: my last two years as an undergraduate, I was dead-set on doing an English Ph.D., and then once I graduated and started looking into programs, I was all like "Read Milton? Fuck that noise!" And so I kept groping for places that I could do, like, general cultural-studies work but, like you, started to develop an aversion to theory (or at least academic bullshit), and so that ruled out dozens of places. And then I thought I'd maybe do a creative writing/criticism program at CalArts, but when I visited it seemed like such a sad and lonely place, and that's when I realized, "Wait, I don't actually need to go to graduate school, do I?"
That said, I know that Northwestern's Comparative Literary Studies Ph.D. program is fairly unique: You can choose one of three tracks -- Diaspora Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Literature and Critical Theory. Focusing on Film and Media Studies might be the way to go.
Also, the University of Chicago has a Master's Program in the Humanities (2-year program) that is one of the most flexible graduate programs I've come across: you have to take one or two intro classes on theory, but then after that you can choose classes from any humanities department pretty much a la carte.
What do you mean about Bowling Green's "theoretical foundations"? My impression of that school (my dad did graduate work there and befriended a couple of the pop-culture profs) is that it's actually fairly non-theoretical, i.e., pop culture approached more from a historical, American-studies angle. Perhaps it's changed, I don't know. But the work published in the Journal of Popular Culture (edited at BGSU), from what I remember reading of it in the late 90s, bore little resemblance to French-influenced (or even British-style) cultural studies.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― L(E^24) (Leee), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:49 (twenty years ago) link
plus, you'll only be 45 mins away! Beer in Ann Arbor!
― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― L(E^24) (Leee), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
I have a few questions on this subject that you MIGHT be able to answer...I'll email you when I get a moment.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 11 January 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Majors (Leee), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
Also, a stack of my comics just fell over. Not a good omen.
― Leee the Whitey (Leee), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee the Whitey (Leee), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago) link
what will that make, like five of us ilxors in the midwest? (chicago doesn't count)
Are there even that many?
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link
xpost I'm not an official Ilxor but I live in ohio
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
(oh and j0hn doesn't count anymore, he moved)
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
ugh, which time? *sobbing in fetal position*
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:29 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
*This is a lie. It's because we suck.
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link
Actually thinking about the terms they've given me -- how good can BGSU be if they're willing to waive tuition for me?
― Leee the Whitey (Leee), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
My teeth are strong. I like corn!
Also, thanks to all you kind folk for putting up with my grad school melodrama.
~*kisses*~
― Tweee the Wily (Leee), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
(That isn't a "oh crap, he took me seriously" tone, don't get me wrong, I just don't remember it. Also, if you hate the Midwest, please don't blame me. Jungle Jim's is very nice, and there is a fine selection of native cheeses and pork products.)
Don't sell yourself short re: the tuition waiver. Schools can smell promise! Or something.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee the Lee (Leee), Friday, 12 March 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 March 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Friday, 12 March 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
That sounds key to me if your goal is still to teach.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link
I still have two papers left, but I don't know when one of them is due. I'm ready to sleep for 20 hours.
― L (Leee), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― mouse (mouse), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
But, getting an idea of the very finite financial resources for which I'd be competing with other students who, I'd assume, are smarter/more driven than I am, and perhaps for the first time, I'm very very scared. Then again, I've already committed $45 to the letter of recommendation service, so there's no point in throwing that money away! Still, if you can offer assurances, that'd be appreciated; I do think that grad school/academia is something that's right for me, despite the Fears I have.
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost - shhh!
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Alas, "funology" is my neologism.
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I highly recommended taking the Academic/Professional Writing course. Improved my writing tenfold, and possibly it taught me finally how to read non-fiction prose.
Not that you'd suspect any improvement from that last sentence.
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I have the phear that I will have the dreaded giant-sized sombrero and go 0 for 7.
― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link