Is it useless to pursue a Doctorate in English Literature?
Looking at your undergrad, I would have asked you “so when does grad school start?” and expected law school. Your grad school is equally vague. The problem is that you’re undereducated to teach college and uneducated to teach high school, as you haven’t taken any education courses. If you had more than one one language I’d suggest the “state department”. Lets be real, “islamic studies” and “comparative literature” doesn’t make you a find for anyone to snap up. It isn’t as if there are tons of jobs for people who like to read literature. You’ve added more “I like to read and can write scholarly papers” courses in taking history. It isn’t hard to find people who like to read. You can either go back to school or get out and do something, the same break as anyone makes. Sure some people with those degrees become pundits, others end up working at Denny’s. If you’d wanted a guarantee with your degree you should have taken something difficult like science or math. As for the doctorate, it’ll
