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Originally Posted by gre06
Do you mind me asking more about your research interests? I was initially drawn to comp lit programs since they tend to be more theoretically oriented, but I don't quite have the language background (or, at this point, the theoretical scope), so English Lit is a better fit.
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My main focus is psychoanalysis, mostly linked to limit events, such as the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and 9/11. Apart from limit events, I'm also interested in typically female maladies and urban studies. I haven't quite decided upon anything definite yet as I still need to take two years of courses anyhow and I will probably change my mind. But it will all be within the fields I mentioned. So yes, very theoretical, but all of that is up to you. In the first semester, I am taking 3 theory courses and 1 literature course, but I could've done it the other way around as well. At least at Brown (in comp lit), I've seen people working on something very theoretical and others nearly entirely focusing on primary sources, and I presume the same is true for Eng Lit, a dissertation topic can be very theoretical, or not at all and a lot of theses in Comp Lit could be theses in other departments (such as Eng Lit or MCM/film studies). The reason I chose Comp Lit is because I also wanted to continue to work on Italian Lit and film. It's very much of a choice considering all factors, it's not that clear-cut as some of the projects I've been thinking about could easily be done in an Eng dept, film studies, Italian studies, Romance languages, or American Studies dept. Luckily for me, all of them fit in nicely within Comp Lit.
