"In navigating the planetary space of a postnational constellation geocritically, we may thus embrace the strangeness of the contemporary world-system, imagine radical alternatives, and descry--if only in uncertain, tentative, and momentary glimpses--the features of other worlds."
-Robert T. Tally, Jr. |
"Practices of communication have an irreducible spatial dimension in the sense that they involve relocation from here to there as messages and meanings circulate from one place to another ... Communications may involve the traversal of space and the bridging of geographical gaps, and/or temporal gaps that separate "now" from "then." Alternatively, we may also think of communication practices as productive of space."
-Paul C. Adams. |
"What would the dynamics of genres look like mapped against these extended and locally mediated relational threads? What low-level theorizing might it support? And what literary history emerges on this modest platform?"
-Wai Chee Dimock |
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I am primarily interested in developing interdisciplinary projects between literary studies and geography. My use of a spatial lens is is part of my chief concern with understanding how texts participate in building nations and communities (material or imaginary).
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My broad interest in culture begins with my consideration of it as a "radical process of becoming," to borrow a phrase from human geographer Paul Adams, constructed and performed by readers, writers, and texts, rather than a static object .
As a doctoral student and professional, I am interested in pursuing meta-cognitive, interdisciplinary projects that utilize eclectic research methodologies from both geographic, philosophic, and literary scholars in order to create innovative interpretive frameworks. |
I am currently a third year PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. I am a teacher at heart, spending my years prior to doctoral studies not only engaged in scholarly and professional activities but also teaching high school full time.
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