Well, I’m back. After an eight hour plane ride (much easier than the one to Heathrow), I made it home. I’m glad to be back, but I’m so enormously grateful for my trip to Oxford. Something I’m especially appreciative of is my expanded world view. I feel like I have a much greater understanding of…
Tag: English Literature
Five Weeks in Oxford
I’m nearing the end of my program! I have a week left. At the same time, I feel like I both have fully settled in here and am ready to go home. But certainly, it’s been a universally wonderful experience. Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been able to do more casual, domestic things now…
Three Weeks in Oxford
After three weeks at Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford University, I’ve completed my first course, which was about the history of fantasy literature. It was truly excellent, some of the best teaching I’ve ever had, and I was also delighted by the passion and curiosity of my classmates. It was really exciting to be in…
First Week in Oxford!
Hi! My name’s Luca. I’m an English Literature and English Writing: Fiction double major at Pitt, and I’ll be a senior this fall. I flew into England a week ago yesterday, and over the past week I’ve been studying the history of fantasy literature at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford! My first week went…
CUTF (09/23/22): Fracturing the Monstrous Feminine
Snow White bit the apple. The clock struck midnight. Rapunzel let down her hair. And the little mermaid swam up. Once, there was a king who had a daughter. And this princess, right away, was adored. She was born and she was loved. The king, her siblings, everyone. When people looked at her, they saw…
Closing Thoughts: My Brackenridge Experience
Knowing when I need to deviate from my schedule has proven to be one of the most important tools to understand in order to maintain my research momentum in the future. For the summer, my project was broken down into two stages. During the first, I read through The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing…
Practice in Communication: Learning While Researching
Throughout these past several weeks of the fellowship, the purpose and significance of my project concerning female spectatorship have shifted with the more work I complete. While my focus has not strayed from pushing for an acknowledgment of the value of critical viewing done by female spectators during the Renaissance period, I continue to contemplate…
Brackenridge Fellowship: Learning From My Cohort
In my Brackenrdige cohort, the discussion surrounding how to pursue different research interests has flowed through our conversations. How can I choose just one interest in my research? How do we know if our topic is too broad? Too narrow? In these first four weeks of the fellowship, I have found myself thinking about how…
Getting Started: Summer Brackenridge Journey
Introduction Hello everyone! My name is Hailey Palubicki, and I am a rising senior majoring in English Literature and minoring in LGBTQ and Critical Sexuality Studies with a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. Another certificate I hope to pursue while here at the University of Pittsburgh is the Medieval & Renaissance Studies certificate! My…
My CUTF: “I open at the close”
Annabeth Collis I open at the close … It’s hard to believe that this semester is almost over. It seems like it was just a few weeks ago that I was drafting and writing my midterm analysis exemplar for my Harry Potter class. Since August, our class has covered a lot of material, including all…