Food as Prologue Have you ever heard the phrase “what’s past is prologue”? Perhaps not if you’re not an English nerd like I am. It’s a quote from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Bard meant the past sets up the context for the present. This is a pretty simple idea, intuitive even. Past experiences affect […]
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Childhood Trauma and The Complexities Associated With It And Writing
FINAL TRADITONAL PAPER: HONS 255 FINAL (1)
Held in Memory: Artifacts of Love, Grief, and Identity
Introduction Tell me your favorite childhood memory, and I’ll tell you who you are. —Deborah Taffa, Whiskey Tender This quote has followed me throughout the creation of this project, which represents both a creative act of remembrance and a critical exploration of autobiographical theory. It speaks to what this scrapbook represents: the power of memory […]
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 & […]
20 Selves: Final Project
Montaigne once wrote that we had as much in common with ourselves as we do with others. Identity is a prism, a confluence. There are no stable self-hoods: On the contrary, they mutate, improvise, and further devolve. Alter egos, literally alternative selfhoods, have been a means of exploring such a notion — namely, the multiplicity […]
The Art of Autobiographical Endings: Exemplified in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘In the Dream House’
The Art of Autobiographical Endings_ Exemplified in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘In the Dream House’ -2
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 […]