Help?

[highlyeccentric]

At college formal dinner tonight, I discovered that one of my new postgrad friends has recently been awarded the Queensland Fulbright Scholarship to study in the States next semester. She suggested that, in my process of Applying-For-Everything-Under-The-Sun over the next nine months or so, I ought to have a stab at a Fulbright, and a) offered to help me with applications and b) told me that the College’s Honorary Librarian, whom I conveniently know through working for the college library, is on NSW Fulbright committee or panel or whoever they are.

Since I do honestly intend to apply for everything under the sun, and I hadn’t thought about US study before, I’m asking for suggestions. If I wanted to do a one-year Masters program in either Anglo-Saxon studies or interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, where should I apply?
Furthermore- are international students able to take student loans in the States? (Obviously I’d try to secure further funding to cover fees, but it’s worth finding these things out…)

And does anyone know of a way to sell Medieval Studies as relevant and useful and liable to enrich relations between the US and Australia?

(x-posted)

 

Comments

[naamah.livejournal.com]

Almost all master's programs in the States take 2 years to complete. That's not to say that there are no 1-year programs, but they will be the exception. If you wanted to do just one year at a school that didn't have a 1-year master's, that is usually possible as an international exchange student, especially as a Fulbrighter.

I really don't know enough about the specialties at different schools, but here are some of the universities with top medieval studies programs: Yale, Notre Dame, Western Michigan, Fordham, Berkeley, UCLA...other people might be able to add some to that.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

two years... hmmm... that'd be a nuisance, although, as they say, Fulbrighters can usually secure further funding for the second year.

[(Anonymous)]

I think Naama (above) is right--most US schools have 2-year MAs. However, Fordham (http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/graduate.html) has a one-year, and it's a good program.

If you're worried about the money, though, UConn (where I am) offers a tuition waver and a decent stipend (one that can be lived on for a year) for all its accepted MAs (in the English or medieval studies programs). Of course, the deal with UConn is that you teach one course in writing each semester, too (which also looks good on CV and resume). Anyway, if you have the money from Fullbright and the income from the UConn stipend, you could survive very well for two years.

[(Anonymous)]

P.S. I forgot to sign that last comment. It was I.

Brandon

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

you get Pronoun Points.

also, use the OpenID option, give it your blogspot address, and, if you have cookies enabled, it should remember it foreverandeverandever :)

[bwhawk.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Really? Wow, I didn't think the OpenID would work for blogger people... Great, thanks!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

:D