This week I've been writing fellowship & grant applications and paper
proposals. I've applied to two places (the DSRG and the Clark) to get
money to go to LA and see the Wilde typescript. Besides these
applications, I also submitted an abstract to a special edition of
Digital Humanities Quarterly on …
Submitted my prospectus to the English office today. It's been a long
process---three months, three drafts, two reviews in Dissertation
Workshop.
I changed the introduction, going more directly into Queer DH. I also
narrowed down the focus of the main paragraphs after the intro:
reading method, Life Writing, Cyborgs, and …
My past two posts have been clarifying the concept of "untouchable"
and how it functions in relation to queerness. "Untouchable" denotes a
state of suspended knowledge (about queer subjectivity and
experience) that allows me to then turn to feeling and affect as
epistemological methods.
- First, I worked out a definition …