Thesis Podcast #5

Here is the final portion of the podcast of my MA thesis. This was a blast to put together and I hope to do this more in the future.

Spring 2009 Papers

I did not take any classes in the spring of 2009, but I did wrap up my thesis and then graduate. The text of my MA Thesis defense is more or less taken from my working draft at the time. I may have added a bit at the beginning and end that is new. I gave it one more revision after that and then submitted the final version maybe a week later.

The next morning I returned to campus so I could participate in a panel on publishing as a graduate student. I gave some brief remarks and then joined a discussion.

Spring 2008 Papers

In the spring of 2008, I only took one class. This was a hard semester due to some real life issues. I gave a presentation in class on the role of intertextuality in Mrs. Dalloway . My seminar paper continued this line, but also included the role, as a contrast, of geography in Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns . Toni Magyar and I also gave a talk about our symposium entitled What Is a Text? A Political History of Texts From Gutenberg to Electronic Literature and Beyond. This would be the last time Toni and I ran the symposium. There were some serious hiccups with this one and a few problems came up that really turned me off from continuing to work on it.