Comments | beanworks: Just like a trained poodle, I can jump through hoops!

beanworks

Just like a trained poodle, I can jump through hoops!

Dec 13, 2004 16:00

So I had my "pre-orals" meeting today, which is basically the hoop you jump through into a phase where you pretend you know where you're going with your bad academic self. And let me tell you, my academic self has got direction now. I have my future-job-market self heading in the job market direction, the dissertation self headed in the ( Read more... )

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goteam December 13 2004, 22:58:46 UTC

Woot! Congratulations, Liz! I'm kinda curious to read more in particular about the intersection and synthesis of your academic (and other) interests and your politics and whatnot, because I am a colossal geek like that. Also because I keep thinking "hrrm, grad school?" and then talking myself out of it again. For instance, if you (by which I mean "me") wanted to study the identity politics of food (diets vs. lifestyle choices vs. the labels people use for themselves based on what they eat vs. eating disorders vs. you probably get the idea) what the hell kind of programs would you apply to? The U. of O has an interdisciplinary Folklore program which is the bastard lovechild of anthropology and literature, which holds some appeal, especially the "interdisciplinary" and "bastard" parts, but yeah. It must be winter, 'cuz I'm all too easily discontent.

beanworks December 14 2004, 02:53:46 UTC

The condensed version is that I want to work on interactions of gender and form in 50's poetry...while still getting a job. To that end, my "major" field is American 20th-century, and one of my two minor fields will be a mostly theoretical exploration of what a gendered poetics is/could be. Basically, "gendered poetics" is a term that can very easily be thrown around, and it's often used to write off (pardon the pun) poets who don't fit into traditional concepts of what they're "supposed" to write; this applies to the women Beat poets, but also to a lot of other things. I'm hoping to think about how conceptions of gender can help open up the discussion of these women poets. I'd also like to do a minor field on culture and form in poetry, but that's still up in the air ( ... )