#phding

[dorkatamas]

Feminist Modernist Studies

accepted my first academic publication. This is a huge deal for me, I was so so scared that I won’t get anything published by the time I complete my PhD.

The title of my publication is “Sylvia Plath’s Reimagination of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales in Postwar American Culture”

[oystertongue]

03/25/2021

[ahistoriantobe]

Well I’m not stressed at all. Impatiently waiting for word on the K&Q conference I REALLY want to attend, and just today I’ve found my membership exception request has been approved for MESA and now today’s devoted to writing the paper abstract and it’s not like I’m DESPERATE to present in October, and it has NOTHING to do with the promise of TRAVELLING at all. (I’ve almost forgotten that the world outside the house is real...)

[knitsandbones]

I am officially defending my PhD thesis on December 14th!!!!

[gracezanotti]

Rather, I am suggesting something far more basic: namely, that our inability to ‘define’ the love between Achilles and Patroclus, whether or not Homer himself was indifferent to the task of doing so, is part of what makes that love believable as love. For if one were to draw only a single lesson from the long history of love, especially the literary history of love, including but not limited to same-sex love, it would surely be about love’s Houdini-like ability to escape ‘labels,’ to say nothing of ‘strait-jackets.’ Were Achilles and Patroclus friends, or battlefield comrades, or lovers? When it comes to true love, the best answer is always ‘yes.’ Forget the ‘intention’ that Fantuzzi remarkably claims to know not only for Homer but for the authors of Gilgamesh and the Book of Samuel. Or rather, suppose that he is right, since, heaven (alone) knows, he may well be. In that case, time has given us the true-love stories that a single age perhaps could not: that is to say, stories of that kind of love that leaves questions about labels to those lovers of words who are really only lovers of dictionaries.

Shane Butler, “Homer’s Deep”

[dorkatamas]

Had a meeting

with an editor from Edinburgh University Press... nothing major but it is one foot in the door and got useful feedback from an editor’s perspective that there is a market for my research, so get back to them once I finish, with a developed proposal

[dorkatamas]

I am pleased to announce that I am one step closer to my PhD(despite having tons of writing to do); I am now confident of the overarching narrative and came up with this title: From Salem until Ariel: Powers of the Supernatural in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry🤘🪄🧙‍♀️✨🧛🧚

[oystertongue]

between now and monday, I have to 

- finish the rough draft of my grant application (5.5k words) - write at least half of my conference paper (1k words) - draft syllabi for summer courses  - bake Z’s birthday cake  - laundry???? - do a nonzero amount of reading [seminar 1][seminar 2][finish wittgenstein] - bathe my lizard - roast a chicken - finish end-of-season garden harvest and distribute bounty to pals

we are approaching the full synthesis of work from home/live at work