I feel sorry for the tutor faced with marking umpteen six/eight thousand-word essays in ten days time. I feel sorrier for myself, however, for having to write it ( Read more... )

My Feminist Literary Theory course is driving me bonkers. Not just because of the psychobabble (I'm looking at you Irigaray, Butler, Kristeva, Freud) but because virtually all the material we have to read is so dated.

Feminist Postcolonial Theory isn't a bad book per se, but most of the articles in it are now twenty years old. One of them is about ( Read more... )

The MA course continues to be stimulating - for a given value of the word, which sometimes means "intensely annoying". It looks like my dissertation proposal will be turned down, mainly because what I want to do is far too big for an MA - but framing something of the right size is apparently a test of suitability to work at this level, so heaven ( Read more... )

There's a change to the posting interface? Perhaps I'm not seeing it because I always use the HTML screen.

( My MA course and Feminist Theory. Pass along by if you're not interested. )