1. Bleak job market sounds somewhat true. Go to as high ranked a program as you can get into with funding and/or Don't be a "I refuse to teach ENG 101 at a community college the rest of my life!" snob.
2. Funding depends on the university. Funding in general is going by the wayside, but if you're at one of those schools with a zillion sections of ENG 101 then there's funding (ie, teaching it). 3. I don't get the question. There is no incompatibility with texts and cultural studies. 4. Why red-headed? Don't worry, "communications" will always be made fun of more than English. 5. Depends. I'm doing an M.A. and don't have to take any theory at all. My uni requires exactly one theory course for the PhD.
There are some film classes out there. At my uni though, for instance, I have NEVER had an English professor show a film.
I adore cultural studies. I'm always taking classes involving feminism, ethnic lit, etc. I find it annoying when people want to take none of that because I think it's part of being well-rounded. If anything I wish people took MORE of it as a way of "revaluing" the undervalued.
Academia is hard. The amount of work it takes to "make it" is phenomenal. that's why I'm stopping after my M.A. You have to way it more than anything, possibly more than having a balanced life.
Oh, it was a bad/inappropriate joke. You know how people make fun of the other subjects to boost their own poor self esteem and insecurities?
Usually I'm the brunt of it, too, having been an el ed major along with English. The departments probably could make themselves more challenging in some universities though.
2. Funding depends on the university. Funding in general is going by the wayside, but if you're at one of those schools with a zillion sections of ENG 101 then there's funding (ie, teaching it). 3. I don't get the question. There is no incompatibility with texts and cultural studies. 4. Why red-headed? Don't worry, "communications" will always be made fun of more than English. 5. Depends. I'm doing an M.A. and don't have to take any theory at all. My uni requires exactly one theory course for the PhD.
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I adore cultural studies. I'm always taking classes involving feminism, ethnic lit, etc. I find it annoying when people want to take none of that because I think it's part of being well-rounded. If anything I wish people took MORE of it as a way of "revaluing" the undervalued.
Academia is hard. The amount of work it takes to "make it" is phenomenal. that's why I'm stopping after my M.A. You have to way it more than anything, possibly more than having a balanced life.
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Could you explain what you mean by this?
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Usually I'm the brunt of it, too, having been an el ed major along with English. The departments probably could make themselves more challenging in some universities though.
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