Description: Cooking My Way Through Graduate School
Yikes. It has been a hot minute since I’ve published anything over here. Pretty much the first half of my PhD has gone by without so much as an update. I finished my Master’s degree in May 2020 (yes, please shake your head sympathetically), and began my PhD in fall of 2020. I just finished coursework in December, and today is my first day of studying for my comprehensive exams.
So here we are, day one. What are comprehensive exams, you ask? For an English PhD, they are a series of four lists, two short lists and two long lists. Short lists have 7-8 works on them, while long lists have about 15 works. My lists are as follows: Early American (short); 19th Century American (long); 20th Century American (short); and Ecocriticism/Ecofeminism/New Materialism (long).
Today I began my Early American short list. If you are interested in reading along with me on anything, I’ll include the list below. My goal is to complete this list in 2-2.5 weeks. Most works I will only spend one day on.