In the race to flesh out my thesis bit by bit, day after day, this week has been a test of bite-sized progress. Juggling coursework and activities is always a challenge, but as I approach the championship swim meet this weekend the intensity seems to grow. My work this week focused on improving and expanding […]
How Fiction Unsettles Time and Space: The Five Page Thesis
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. […]
Unsettling Fiction: Contemporary Earthquake Literature in The Pacific Northwest and Japan (Fall Analysis)
(top of the hourglass) I am examining the concept of place as it functions in fictional worlds, in particular, fictional worlds that are unsettled by earthquakes. While this focus is motivated by my own physical and cultural context of the Pacific Northwest, this project bridges a variety of disciplines from the humanities to the physical and […]