For my final project, I was inspired by Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House, and wanted to challenge my writing. I’ve always loved writing and have used writing as a form of therapy throughout the years. I wanted to share my experience having an eating disorder and my recovery process. Eating disorders are […]
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Reflection: Childhood Trauma and The Complexities Associated With It
PRESENTATION: HONS FINAL REFLECTION (1) Description of Topic: My topic surrounds the idea of dissociation and imagination as a common trauma response seen in young kids. I attempt to tie this into memoir writing by writing my thesis and saying, “A child’s dependency on dissociation and imagination during traumatic experiences directly impacts memoir writing and […]
Final Project and Reflection
Final Project Critical Paper: Autobiograhical Truth and Reliability For my final project, I decided to explore the truth and reliability of an autobiographical narrative. I went about this through a critical lens, as I wrote a traditional scholarly inquiry about the components that give an autobiographical narrative the authority to reliably tell a story. I […]
self-reflection as sonic memoir
Project link: https://sonicmemoir.my.canva.site/ Research paper: docs.google.com/document For my final project, I chose to explore a deeply personal and evolving expression of identity through music. The project is structured around two CDs, each divided into thematic arcs that reflect different stages of self-reflection. These arcs—Chaos & Containment, Escape & Invention, Clarity & Reclamation, and Release & […]
The Fun of Final Reflections
Final Reflection: My project consisted of 20 vignettes from a variety of different social positions and perspectives. I would write a paragraph from the point of view, say, a housewife, or an alien. They were essentially a “day in the life” of a person completely foreign to me. It did not even need to be […]
Reflection on “The Art of Autobiographical Endings: Exemplified in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘In the Dream House'”
Carmen Maria Machado decided to end her memoir, In the Dream House, with a final chapter titled “Dream House as Ending.” According to her, the notion that “there’s a real ending to anything, I’m pretty sure, is the lie of all autobiographical writing”(Machado 239). Every autobiographical writer has to eventually let the reader go, but […]
Grace Walden and Cameron Andrews Final Project: Episodes 1 and 2
We recorded two podcasts, Episode 1: Let Them: Rewriting Control and Claiming Peace and Episode 2: Let Them: Genre, Truth, and Owning the Narrative, which separately explore how authors Safiya Sinclair and Carmen Maria Machado uniquely employ Mel Robbins’ “Let Them” theory in their memoirs. The underlying concept of the “Let Them” theory which we […]