From the Wheel to the Wall
This is a clip from a lecture I presented at the 2013 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in Houston, TX. This presentation compared ceramics and graffiti and my history with both. This...
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Being Brave
So far, this is the mantra for my summer residency at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Although it sometimes hard to be brave and write even in my lovely little breezy office in Ihlseng...
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I am working right now on a dissertation chapter about literary style: syntax, diction, sentence structure, and the like. One of the texts I have been reading–a study of Henry James’s notorious “late...
View ArticleBrain Food
In order to hammer away on the keyboard (and on one’s brain) every day–and make no mistake, this dissertation summer is all about brain and keyboard hammering–one needs proper nutrition. I learned this...
View ArticleTranslating the wor(l)d
I recently finished the first chapter of my dissertation, a chapter on a well-known author in Turkey, but still marginal in world literature. This is perhaps the common fate of most authors who write...
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The image that inspired my dissertation
As I am struggling with my dissertation this summer, I thought I would remind myself of the image that first inspired me to write about this project.
View ArticleNYC Mods
This past Friday, I spent the afternoon with the NYC modernism seminar–a casual meeting of modernist faculty and graduate students in the New York area. Of course, State College is not a part of the...
View ArticleProkofiev and The Giant
Hello all. After a bit of technical confusion, I’m finally able to use the IAH blog! For the moment, I would just like to leave a little taste of what my research this summer has been focused on so...
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Elephant the Marvelous and Magnificent
Suleyman the Elephant Currently, I am reading for the second chapter of my dissertation, specifically about the concept of wonder in Islamic epistemology. As I read, I stumble upon numerous marvelous...
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These past few weeks, I have been working on the Italian-language portion of my current dissertation chapter. [Durante le settimane passate, ho lavorato nella parta italiana del capitolo corrente della...
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