- tried to find an adviser in the film department
- inspired by Lindsey’s research workshop to use Tumblr (found behind the scenes and promotional images, reviews, an infographic by The Guardian featuring stats about Hitchcock’s most popular works, real-time posts by Hitchcock fans in honor of Hitchcocktober, etc.)
- setting up meeting with Joe McElhaney (Hunter’s Hitchcock expert) to run my ideas by him
- narrowing down primary sources (novels and films)
- met with Isabel Pindeo; helped me weed out irrelevant sources that were only confusing me and pulling my thesis in different directions
- started using Zotero to keep my bibliography under control
Nice thought about Tumblr–I’ve used it myself to find material. (I’d recommend everyone do this at some point, if not later this fall then in the spring.)