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 …
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The 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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It's been difficult to stay focused during the pandemic. Only the past week have I been able to return to my dissertation work, and just to go over my reading notes taken in the weeks prior to march 16, when I left New York. I was working through a mountain …
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Over the past two weeks, I continue to interweave discussions on queer theory and dh methods, focusing on what they share---the sensitivity to textual objects, mediated by the critic's self-consciousness of her distance from the object.
It has been difficult to keep a structure, and I continue to revise my …
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The past few days we have been running our annual Digital Research Institute at the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives. I've taught three sessions of python, and supported sessions on Text Analysis, as well as helping out in Command Line, Git/Github, and attended Mapping.
What I've found, or realized once …
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