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Eric now has a Masters in English!

Posted in Graduate School, tagged on April 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I passed my Masters Portfolio Defense today.
 After a fun discussion that included a few tough questions about my papers, my goals as a scholar, and my distrust of theory in general my mentors conferred onto me my Masters degree. Technically it still has to arrive in the mail. Also, I technically have to finish one more [...]

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New Year, New Semester

Posted in Graduate School on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well it is a new school year folks and that means it is a new semester. This semester is going to be a busy one I suspect, but hell when are they ever NOT busy? It also doesn’t help that I have been packing up so that I can move a week from now down [...]

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Can’t figure it out!

Posted in Graduate School, Philosophy on April 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I can’t figure out what I want to write for my final paper in the Foucault class.
1) My first idea was to compare Foucault’s philosophy with Simone De Beauvoir’s existential philosophy because I think there are many similarities between them, especially in the insistence human beings are always caught up in relations with the [...]

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My First Academic Conference

Posted in Graduate School, Writing on March 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Today I presented my paper Reevaluating Harlan Ellison’s Infamous Fable at the URI Identities conference, my very first graduate conference experience. I woke up early this morning shifting between nervousness and exhaustion (as I’m not used to waking up before 10:30 AM and my panel was at 9 AM).
I was one of three panelists, [...]

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