6 Feb 2023

My Academic Career in 6 Documents

Recently, whilst searching shelves for something else entirely, I happened upon the folder of essays I wrote as part of my MA in English & American Literature. Doing so, I was semi-stunned to note that even the most recent of them — the final thesis — is now more than a decade old¹. Nevertheless, rather than merely continue sitting in a folder upstairs, I figured it might be time to at least give them a home online².

You never know who might stumble upon these things after a highly specific search engine query! If that’s you, I hope something here is of interest.

• 2006 Seekers After Truth — The Writings of Chuck Palahniuk
• 2011 Modernism’s Refiguring of Perspective in Literature and the Visual Arts
• 2011 Bodies of Water in Heart of Darkness & In The Skin of a Lion
• 2012 Fragmentation and Palimpsest in Pound’s Pisan Cantos & HD’s Trilogy
• 2012 Multi-authorial Strategies in Pale Fire & House of Leaves
• 2012 Towards a Genealogy of American Literary Minimalism

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1. Heck, it shouldn’t be a surprise; I have a decade-old blogpost about it.  ↩︎

2. I’ve also dug out an older piece: my undergraduate thesis 🫣  ↩︎