Studying and celebrating the different.
I have been terrified of overthinking things while in school. It's part of why I would put off working on a paper until almost the last minute. Part of it was I never felt ready to write about the topic and would do research until I had to start working on the paper. I know… Continue reading “Overthinking”
I'm watching "The Making of Gettysburg" and a thought hit me. When they made Gettysburg, they had around 50,000 Civil War reenactors who came to be a part of it. But when they first talk about them, the documentary calls them "living historians." I love that. Because they are historians. They learn details about the… Continue reading The impact of fandom
Being in graduate school at the same place for both my master's and my PhD means I have seen a lot of people working on their dissertations. I have seen the way dissertations can effect people. One friend has said they have some PTSD from their dissertation process and I just want to hug them.… Continue reading Focus and Dissertating
"Theory is chosen to illuminate the artifact, rather than vice versa. A work of popular culture scholarship begins with the artifact, whether it is a television show, a song, a celebrity, a movie, a performance, a consumer object, a comic book, or a romance novel."
I am not the greatest at staying on track with things, let alone trying to do a bunch of things at once. I realize that's a lot of the job description for getting tenure track at a university or college. Or just teaching at a university or college. I am trying to use this time… Continue reading Productive in a pandemic
I just finished writing the latest draft of my dissertation prospectus. Tomorrow I'm going to put in all the citations I still need to add and send it off to my committee. I'm hoping what I'll hear back is "When do we schedule your defense?" and I can finally get working on more than that.… Continue reading Vision Shifting Soon
Last week, I got an e-mail that has changed my life. I had submitted a proposal for a chapter about Oracle and why both her presence and removal from comic books is so important for a book about representing disability in the media. The e-mail said that the editor of the book just got the… Continue reading It’s finally starting!
Around a month from now, I'll be presenting "SuperTropes: Finding the difference between Narrative Prosthesis and Introduction to Disability in Marvel Comics" at the Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. I submitted it in my continuing side project of looking at representation of disability in superhero comic books. I kept… Continue reading Supers and disability
Way back during my first semester of graduate school (Fall 2015), one of my professors told us about this program for writers, Scrivener. It had been available for Macs for a while, but had more recently come out with a version for Windows. It looked really neat. It allows you to save a ton of… Continue reading Scrivener. It’s actually useful!
Deviate from the Norm 