So I have been thinking more and more about my dissertation, and what to do with it. At first, I really resisted the idea of publishing it. That genre of academic writing, which I mimed as a learning exercise, feels inauthentic to me in the end. When I look at …
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Looking Back
Reading over all of the posts on this blog, I'm struck by how my thoughts have evolved around defining queerness and deploying it for my project.
Early on, I remember being guided by this idea of queerness as something that is not fully intelligible, not able to be fully grasped …
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Since the spring my ideas for this chapter have solidified, and I am beginning to see what the argument may look like. In the past few days the fragments are coming together as a whole, to my surprise, as I've become increasingly desperate, beating my head against a wall to …
read moreEnvisioning Chapter Three
These are some speculations for my third chapter, which I'm going to begin researching this spring. Whereas the first two chapters were about text analysis and text encoding, this chapter will be about media. I'm looking to explore how an attention to the material specificity of media enhances our reading …
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The work on chapter two has been taking longer than I thought- there were three weeks of heavy revision in October/November, where I made the following changes at the request of my peer reviewers. Then a round of copyediting, which is done, and the final round of proofreading, to …
read moreDrafting Chapter Two
The goal for the summer was to address the remaining small edits of the first chapter and to complete a readable draft of the second chapter by August 31. I managed to make that goal, though a few days late.
I was able to repurpose most of my seminar paper …
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After letting the draft sit for a while, slightly traumatized by the hectic process of wrapping it up over the winter, I was pleasantly surprised by my perspective on it now. The argument that I found discouragingly convoluted still reads as a bit messy but also intriguing, particularly in the …
read moreClosing Up Chapter One
Even though I still need to finalize the conclusion (and add a final example of text analysis), I'm deeming the first draft of my first chapter complete. It's been nearly a year, and the thing has taken so many shapes, texts, interventions in the meantime. Although there's still a little …
read moreThe Fantasy of the Falsifiable
In the past three months, this chapter has taken on a whole new form. I had a meeting with my dissertation workshop in late October that revealed to me how I was writing around the argument I wanted to make, which is about deconstructing (in NKM's words) "the fantasy of …
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