Posts filed under 'Dissertation'
OK, so the history of color printing goes back hundreds of years. But today, the most widely recognized palette in use for color printing is CMYK: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black. Okay, it’s easy to see how those colors, as variations on primary colors, give you lots of different possible results when mixed. But […]
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November 9th, 2010
I spent a chunk of my summer transcribing interviews between poets. It’s not for my own work, though there is some transcribing I need to do for the third chapter of my dissertation, and probably also for the fourth. I signed a confidentiality agreement for this job, so I’m not going to get into the […]
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September 9th, 2010
Today, my doctoral program’s student association sponsored a “Workshop on University Administration and Other Non-Teaching Careers.” I hadn’t intended to go. Today was my first stop by the Graduate Center in about ten days, and I really had come in simply to run errands: print a few items, file for travel reimbursement, etcetera. But a […]
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April 16th, 2010
I had hoped that, having gone through this process, I would be able to reflect upon it, and offer up some nuggets of wisdom, some insights which explain how one is supposed to summarize a nonexistent monograph. I find, however, that I cannot adequately explain how I did what I did, or generalize beyond my […]
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January 16th, 2010
When I teach, one of the things I try to instill in my students is an ability to reflect critically on their own processes—how they write, how they read, how they think, how they learn. I try to learn about and think through my own processes, too. Turning an eye (or both) back onto the […]
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September 21st, 2009
Very broadly speaking, my dissertation examines the effect of Cold War-era sexual politics on the composition and publication of the long poems written by American poets of the twentieth century. Before I go into how I got here, a few explanations:
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September 3rd, 2009
After isolating the questions that have driven and continue to drive my research (hey, I’m in the humanities, figuring out the point of something after the fact is part of the fun! *wink*), this past week I set about compiling an effective starting bibliography for my dissertation. There are any number of ways to go […]
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August 31st, 2009