P-P-Papers

I was recently purging my laptop and stumbled upon the cache of all of my semester papers from grad school. Note: each semester paper was roughly 17-20 pages long; each class required one; I took three classes a semester, two semesters a year, for two years. And you wonder why I can type like a gazillion WPM. Lumped together with the other papers I had to write for each class (the smaller ones that led up to the prolix cathexis of each graduate seminar), I’d say that during my grad-school career, I must have typed at least five-hundred pages. Now you can understand how I wrote a book in three months. And why I am so awesomely nerdy.

Here’s the list of my titles, following each class heading. Welcome to my universe.

ENG 805: Medieval Lit (Fall ’06): “‘I am Woman, Hear Me Wail’: How Gender Affects the Authorship of Margery Kempe” (this also became the base for the paper I presented at the 2007 SouthEastern Medieval Association’s literary conference on the Medieval Spirit.)

ENG 814: Irish Drama (Fall ’06): “The Tragi-Comedy of O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy as an Anti-War Statement” 

ENG 823: Modernist Poetry (Fall ’06): “Dadaism: Surpassing the Avant-Garde Expiration Date”

ENG 814: British Victorian Lit (Spring ’07): “Sublimely Subversive: Felicia Hemans as Social Commentator”

ENG 831: Screen Authorship/Auteur Theory (Spring ’07): “‘Oh Author, Author, Wherefore Art Thou, Author?’: Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet as a Parodying Statement to Authorial Hegemony” <– prob one of my best…

ENG 885: Compositional/Pedagogical Theory (Spring ’07): my final project was a myspace page on visual rhetoric entitled “Freud’s Red-headed Stepchild,” found at www.myspace.com/rockonvisualrhetoric

ENG 802: Study of the Epic (Fall ’07): “Articulating ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’: Epic Heroes’ Inability to Define their Worlds” <– written in one day…

ENG 805: Medieval Lit and Film (Fall ’07): “‘Breaking the Mold’: Examining the Female Characters in Beowulf” <– another fab one…

ENG 808: Renaissance/Restoration Lit (Fall ’07): “‘All She Needs is a Cape’: Eve as the Heroic Character in Paradise Lost” <– pretty BA as well…

ENG 633: Anglo/Irish Lit (Spring ’08): “‘Weaving the Ancient into the Modern’: Yeats as Ireland’s Modern Mythmaker”

ENG 802: Documentary Theatre (Spring ’08): “‘According To Whom?’: The Veracity of Documentary Theatre”

I also wrote a guest-lecture, book reviews published in The South Carolina Review, and the syllabi for the classes I taught.

I make it rain, bitches. Make it rain with semester papers.

And now you know why I’m underemployed. And why I blog so much.