Just a tiny, itty bitty post to share with you all that I’ll be in Vietnam for the next four weeks. It’ll be a combined visiting family/research trip to flesh out my last dissertation chapter, “Host: Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon,” which uses biopower and biopolitics as a lens to examine the cultural texts of the …
Category: travel
Up Ahead: MLA 2013
I’m getting ready to attend the Modern Language Association annual convention in Boston, where I’ll be speaking on a panel entitled, Representing Race: Silence in the Digital Humanities. That session is #s239, Friday, 4 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gardner, Sheraton. I look forward to seeing some of you there! For more information on the panel, please see Adeline …
Traces of Places
Another whirlwind week, and though I’m not, I already feel behind… Sometimes, though, I will gladly let myself fall slightly behind professionally, if I am given an opportunity to participate in something more significant. Something that will make me stop and reevaluate myself and my reasons for pursuing this profession that so many have warned …
First Quals Success (more or less)!
After months of reading, and studying, and cramming, my first qualifying exams are behind me! Woohoo! Here in our program it’s an oral exam in three specific reading lists. My lists were: U.S. Race and Ethnicity Literatures, Theories of Gender and Sexuality, and Literature and Theory of Technology. The exam was not nearly as horrifying …
Slowly But Surely
I’ll be updating this blog for the next few months, with the hopes of eventually getting all of my Middle East CouchSurfing adventures up. Bear with me!
Fez
Today, we realized that we have been operating in the wrong time zone… two hours ahead of the time in Spain. What was that? I’m not going to be getting my PhD or anything. We thought that Spain and Morocco were in the same time zone (I mean, it’s a 45 minute ferry ride away!) …
Tangier, Day 2
Today was devoted entirely to wandering about the medina in Tangier so we could get to the American Legation Museum (about all the famous American ex-pats who have lived in Morocco) and the Casbah where the king lived back in the olden days. We never found the American Legation Museum (that medina is a frigging …
First day in Morocco
We left Tarifa, Spain this morning and took the ferry from Tarifa to Tangier. And what a difference a 45 minute ferry ride makes! The instant we got off the ferry we were accosted by taxi cab drivers who were, to be completely honest, rather scary, smelly, and really pushy. We ended up walking out …
El último día en Madrid
A busy day! Even if we didn’t get up till 9:30, and didn’t leave the hostel till noon… Tomorrow we leave for Sevilla, and because I sometimes freak out about things like tickets and transportation and things of that nature, I dragged Lindsay across town so we could buy our bus tickets early. It turned …
