Here is my thesis in five pages! This was a very difficult exercise and I’m not sure how much further it got me into writing the whole entire thing. I was very grateful for the work I did last semester. I’m looking forward to receiving feedback this evening to see if condensing my thesis into […]
Tightening the Screws: The Five Page Thesis, Outlined
As a dive into the exercise of writing my thesis in five pages, I present this outline as a modified version of my whole thesis outline. I was forced to make some decisions about the most crucial pieces of my argument to retain in this version. I hope this will result in a tighter and […]
Creative Agency: Mapping Earthquake Culture
My C-Map organizes the main actors and processes in my thesis work on earthquake literature. My question “how and why does Japanese and Pacific Northwest literature render earthquakes and earthquake cultures?” is a piece of a larger guiding questions pondering the power of literature to act upon cultures unsettled by risk of disaster and crisis. […]
Post 11/9: Election Reflection
Election Day felt like a catastrophe on the Lewis & Clark College campus. Conversation was muted. People wore black. People missed class. My peers and professors hadn’t slept. The functions of a normal day disappeared. In my research, catastrophe, disaster, and apocalypse are key terms. It didn’t quite feel like that on 11/9 to me, but it […]
Ruth Ozeki and A Tale for the Time Being: Drawing Connections
For my thesis goals this week, I have turned to Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. This book is a novel about a woman in British Columbia who discovers a lunchbox with a diary from a Japanese teenager that may have been washed over the Pacific from Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and […]