Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:11:58 -0500
From: Christopher Devenney <cdevenne-AT-haverford.edu>
Subject: Re: comparative poco lit


At 04:13 PM 11/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>         I wonder if some of you could help me.  I have an undergraduate
>student in her final year of a combined honours degree in English and French
>who is interested in attending a graduate school (not in 2001 but the year
>after that) somewhere in the world that would allow her to study
>postcolonial literature in both French and English.  She'd like to find an
>M.A. degree program that would also support her in her continuing
>fascination with literary and other critical theories, postcolonial and
>otherwise.  Does anyone out there have any suggestions?


I have a suggestion.  Do the right thing.  Tell her the truth, that there's 
no reason to go to grad. school.  It's years and years of under paid and 
exploited labor for no reward whatsoever at the end--unless adjuncting and 
then an endless series of one/two year appointments is your idea of a 
"career."  Tell her she can read on her own.  Tell her to go and have a life.



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