Queer Tools: notes toward a dissertation

Revisting Chapter One

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 way it interweaveas deformance and performativity.

At this point, I really should be talking to my advisor about it. Even if the prose isn't ready to share, the ideas are workable. Before that, though, I'm going to give myself a week to revise some things that stand out to me, in this order:

add more up front on the technology of Distant Reading, how it works, a kind of media archaeology of the tech.
flesh out the final analysis of Woolf's text (which depends on the specifics of Disant Reading tech).
find a way to structurally integrate the close reading of Woolf's text. Interweave with the intro? Maybe starting with a meditation on gender?

In other news, my abstract on this chapter was accepted by the ACH conference. One other abstract (on my second chapter, which I am now in the process of researching) was accepted at MLA, as well as a book article on the same chapter.

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Closing Up Chapter One

Published: Wed 10 March 2021
By Filipa Calado

In text analysis.

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

Published: Fri 18 December 2020
By Filipa Calado

In text analysis.

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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Feminist Army II

Published: Fri 27 March 2020
By Filipa Calado

In text analysis.

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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Feminist Army

Published: Fri 28 February 2020
By Filipa Calado

In text analysis.

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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Reflections from GC-DRI

Published: Fri 24 January 2020
By Filipa Calado

In text analysis.

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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