Well, I'm really into poststructuralist ethics, feminist, gender, and queer theory, and 20th c. French phil (especially Deleuze and Derrida). Once I'm in grad school I hope to explore phil of religion and posthumanism/eco-philosophy more as well.
A somewhat related question: how would you recommend choosing a writing sample? I won my department's thesis prize for my undergrad thesis, so I'm inclined to choose something from that...Would it be a bad idea to use my introduction (which gives an overview of my inquiry and a synopsis of each chapter) to demonstrate the synthetic aspects of my work, and use the chapter on Bergson to show more traditionally analytic work? I just don't know if "here's my intro and a chapter" is the best way to go.
Plus, while my thesis is very representative of my dominant interests (sexual difference, ontologies of becoming, temporality and social transformation), I'm worried about getting pigeonholed as "that guy who's into queer theory" or something like that. (I applied to 6 very selective PhD programs last year and didn't get into any of them, so I'm a little paranoid.)
A somewhat related question: how would you recommend choosing a writing sample? I won my department's thesis prize for my undergrad thesis, so I'm inclined to choose something from that...Would it be a bad idea to use my introduction (which gives an overview of my inquiry and a synopsis of each chapter) to demonstrate the synthetic aspects of my work, and use the chapter on Bergson to show more traditionally analytic work? I just don't know if "here's my intro and a chapter" is the best way to go.
Plus, while my thesis is very representative of my dominant interests (sexual difference, ontologies of becoming, temporality and social transformation), I'm worried about getting pigeonholed as "that guy who's into queer theory" or something like that. (I applied to 6 very selective PhD programs last year and didn't get into any of them, so I'm a little paranoid.)
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