Welcome to the mystery
Hi, it’s my dissertation!
Update: The future of the project
I defended my dissertation in May 2022 and received my Ph.D. in June. I’m currently teaching composition in PA and working towards publication of the novel. I’ve presented several conference papers based on dissertation chapters and am considering what form these chapters are best suited for moving forward.
The Fanfiction: Sexual Politics in Community
The mystery novel’s narrator, Lu Fairchild, is also the author of two additional collections of writing I’m doing as part of this project: my academic dissertation, and fanfiction that explores questions of consent, vulnerability, desire, and the complicated relationship between what we read and write and what we actually want and/or approve of in real life.
The novel: detective & sidekick
Introducing the novel’s Holmes & Watson.
The dissertation: reading across fields of study
It is difficult to know how to write about two texts that are not from the same field of study. How does one compare a set of nineteenth-century accounts of Spiritualist séances with a twenty-first-century work of online erotic fanfiction about the television show Hannibal?
The novel: introducing the grad students
Announcing the narratively important grad students of Schenley University’s spectacularly dysfunctional English department.
Mystery Dissertation Project 