This week I expanded my thesis, in progress. I decided to start from the beginning in order to attempt to achieve some sort of balance, but I ran out of time before I got to the end. As a result, this thesis is definitely heavy in the top of the hourglass and very sparse in the […]
Literary ANTics: Progress in Methodology and Analysis
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. […]