The short story is that I need a paper that I can submit that straddles the line between history and English literature.
Here's the longer version:
My wife is going to finish her Residency program at approximately the same time as I will finish my masters program.
She is considering pursuing a Fellowship placement.
I would like to continue on to a PhD.
In a perfect world, the stars would align, and we would both be able to get what we want, in the same city.
The more likely scenario is that one or the other of us gets accepted somewhere, and the two of us go there (if it's her) or stay here (if it's me), to start the next phase of our lives.
Fellowships are scattered throughout the U.S. She will apply this summer (2019) and find out her placement by mid-December. We are both hoping for a Chicago placement, but it could be literally anywhere.
I'm looking at Creative Writing PhDs, but I'm also looking at history PhDs. Both are my passion. Because we won't know if she is accepted to a Fellowship until after my deadlines for PhD programs has passed, I am only applying to schools around Chicago (for now). I am also ranking Fellowships outside Chicago by the possibility of my getting accepted into a PhD program near where the Fellowship is located.
All this research has also led to my discovery that I need an academic paper, history oriented, to apply to said PhD programs in history.
Luckily, I have to write two academic papers this semester. Unluckily, they are for English literature classes. The upside is that I finally hit upon a topic in one of them that I think I can alter slightly to fit the application requirements for a PhD program in history.
Doubly luckily, I have two months to get it written, and, I should receive at least some feedback from my current professors as to it's merits (or deficiencies), prior to submission for PhD program consideration.
I've never been so excited to write a research paper in all my life.
Go forth and write!
Here's the longer version:
My wife is going to finish her Residency program at approximately the same time as I will finish my masters program.
She is considering pursuing a Fellowship placement.
I would like to continue on to a PhD.
In a perfect world, the stars would align, and we would both be able to get what we want, in the same city.
The more likely scenario is that one or the other of us gets accepted somewhere, and the two of us go there (if it's her) or stay here (if it's me), to start the next phase of our lives.
Fellowships are scattered throughout the U.S. She will apply this summer (2019) and find out her placement by mid-December. We are both hoping for a Chicago placement, but it could be literally anywhere.
I'm looking at Creative Writing PhDs, but I'm also looking at history PhDs. Both are my passion. Because we won't know if she is accepted to a Fellowship until after my deadlines for PhD programs has passed, I am only applying to schools around Chicago (for now). I am also ranking Fellowships outside Chicago by the possibility of my getting accepted into a PhD program near where the Fellowship is located.
All this research has also led to my discovery that I need an academic paper, history oriented, to apply to said PhD programs in history.
Luckily, I have to write two academic papers this semester. Unluckily, they are for English literature classes. The upside is that I finally hit upon a topic in one of them that I think I can alter slightly to fit the application requirements for a PhD program in history.
Doubly luckily, I have two months to get it written, and, I should receive at least some feedback from my current professors as to it's merits (or deficiencies), prior to submission for PhD program consideration.
I've never been so excited to write a research paper in all my life.
Go forth and write!