Grad School in Review

Fall 2009

I write “Orators: Voice, Agency, and Identity in Jean Toomer’s ‘Kabnis'” for American literature 1865-present (later the recipient of the University Writing Award), “Parodic Heteroglossia in ‘The Psychiatrist'” for literary theory, and “The Art of Ruling” and “Black and White” for my fiction workshop.  I also work in the writing lab and as an academic assistant.

Spring 2010

I write ten four-page response papers for form and theory of fiction, “Say Never: Time and Mortality in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘At the Bay'” for modern British fiction, and “The Mind’s Eye” and “At the Cabin” for my fiction workshop.  I also assist three undergraduate courses.

Fall 2010

I complete a sixty-page portfolio for my theory of teaching composition class, “Toward a Definition of American Whiteness in Russell Banks’s Continental Drift” for my Cormac McCarthy and Russell Banks class, and “She Who Has No Earth” and “The Conquest of the World” (later published in the university journal) for my fiction workshop.  I also teach two sections of College Writing I.

Spring 2011

I successfully defend my Master’s thesis of short fiction, “The Mind’s Eye and Other Stories,” and write “Playing Shifgrethor: What Makes a Man a Traitor in The Left Hand of Darkness” for my science in literature class.  I also teach two sections of College Writing I.

And soon I will get my diploma.

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