A common thread that I feel is shared among those who have or are pursuing a PhD is an endless curiosity and fascination with the world. Whether it is going into the darkest depths about a singular topic or fascination about another PhD candidate's research area that is completely unrelated to your own! I had no idea that the intersectionality between food culture & 17th century literature was something that could even be explored. How fascinating! Still, it makes TOTAL sense given the amazing life experiences that eventually led you to graduate school. I'm a 5th year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology examining how internalized ageism and locus of control beliefs in older adults impact the way they respond to stressors in later life, their motivation for health behavior change, and how this can better inform aging & public health policy. It is CRUNCH TIME for my dissertation right now, and your videos are getting me through the last of it! 18 days until my defense!!😭
Agreed, I love how academics from so many different fields can relate to that feeling of just wanting to go deeper and deeper into a tiny niche! I always love hearing what other peoples' specialties are, yours sounds fascinating and so productive, too. Good luck with the defense! Can't wait until I can say I'm only 18 days away from that milestone (even though I'm also afraid of it haha 😅)
Might be random and I don’t know your exact defense date but you already passed the point of saying “18 days away from the defense” I just read this and thought it was such a nice reminder for you to see how far you have come! Best of luck for your defense!!! And @Laurie_Chin congrats!!
Reading and then writing about what you've read...there's nothing more exhilarating. I knew somewhere around 19 or 20 that I wanted to spend my life writing about the things I've ferreted out to read. No one else really cares about my doctoral thesis topic, but I wrote 415pp. on it. I'd do that again, too, if given the chance.
This is so interesting. Your videos really make me want to go for a PhD , in what? I have no idea lol. You just made me realize that I have a fascination with intercultural relationships throughout history. It literally gets me as excited as you are about your dissertation. Of course I tend to focus on literary depictions of it. Everything from racial, cultural, to robot and human. It doesn't matter. It's likely because I'm the result of it. I didn't notice that until I watched this video. Gotta love when a video completely off topic does that lol.
If you're interested in those kinds of things, you might enjoy the book Tasting Difference by Gitanjali Shahani - I recommend this book all the time, I think it's fascinating! All about early modern cross-cultural contact through food, and the metaphorical and literal ways that colonizing subjects consumed colonized subjects. Shakespeare, recipes, contemporary art, cannibalism... it gets into so many topics in a really interesting way.
I will never get tired of hearing about PhD focuses, I love being an intellect so much as I feel like I always gain such a level of appreciation from hearing about other's dissertation topics.
Watching this after Uptomyknees' "Jepsenology 101" was a vibe 😅. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this, felt like this was only 10 minutes. Dense, but succinct and to the point. More like this would be great!
Very fascinating explanation! Ive never thought of all those texts in that perspective, or how those scenes of hospitality have always been charged with *something* that I felt uneasy about. Most recently I watched The Green Knight, and was fascinated/ confused by the scene when the mc is invited to a kings house and (I think?) falls in love with the kings wife.
I’ve wanted to watch The Green Knight! I’ve never actually read the source material (a bit too early for my research) but I see it referenced often in regards to hospitality and the story seems like a very interesting place to see some of these ideas of dangerous intimacy under hospitality playing out…
i just read sir gawain and the green knight for a medieval literature class and that section is sooo fascinating. in the poem its structured with these simultaneous alternating scenes of lord bertilak hunting & the lady bertilak attempting to seduce gawain and it's so weird and tense, you don't really know what to make of it. was kind of disappointed by the fact that the film didn't follow the same structure for that section because reading it i found it really cinematic !
11 years of coursework (undergrad, master’s, and PhD), 10 months of qualify exams and 10 months of my dissertation (expected). That’s wild when you explain it that way!
as an eng lit student writing a thesis kinda related to food studies and sexual politics this is super interesting! I loved learning about ur research process and the way you arrived at ur focus on hospitality. Can really relate to how you think you’re gonna base ur research on one thing but then further research can lead you to something totally different. Truly feels like an endless number of rabbit holes sometimes 😂
That's such a cool topic to be writing about! Have you ever read anything by Elspeth Probyn? I really like her book "Carnal Appetites; FoodSexIdentities," it has some really fascinating discussion of food, sexuality, queer identities, and even cannibalism... not sure if it would have anything to do with your thesis, but if you're into these kinds of topics you might find it interesting!
Love your choice of thematic chapters. Lends itself so well to coining different subtypes of dysfunction to spin off into articles as well as the full book. Congrats on your draft!!
i loooove the sound of your bread / grain early modern essay/project - would you talk more about that? i know you decided not to keep going on with it but i just love bread lol anyway rly enjoyed this video, i think i said this when i commented on one of your first videos here but im a phd student like 30% into my phd [im doing it part time bc im disabled so i'm in my second yr but have quite a few years to go] and it's always super interesting and useful to hear you talk about your research & your interests! you've really opened the door for me in terms of 'food studies' which i didnt ever really consider as a thing before i found your videos, so that's exciting!!
something that interests me about hospitality is not only that it can be about strangers, anxiety, nationhood, borders etc but also in terms of reproduction & pregnancy - gestation itself is maybe a form of hospitality? the only kind of hospitality that can happen within a body? anyway idk if you've ever read anything about that idea but iif you have i would love to know !!
@@actual-spinster Wow, I've never actually thought about pregnancy as a form of hospitality! But I have thought about the body as a site of hospitality, it's a really interesting but kind of uncomfortable thing... some writings describe the body as being a house within which the soul lives or which has doors that can be opened or closed to contamination, and then some of the plays I read talk about a woman's body as a house and sex as a form of hospitality. That last one is where things get a bit weird, because sometimes in plays you'll see an assumption made based on that, that a woman inviting you into her home, is a sexual invitation that extends to her body... There's also some opportunity for weird and uncomfortable body hospitality ideas when it comes to cannibalism, which is something I talk about a little bit in my dissertation! The borders of the body / the mouth as a threshold over which the guest passes... though in this case the guest is, ya know, turned into food... ...I think it might say something about me that I considered hospitality within a body in regards to cannibalism, before I ever thought about it in regards to pregnancy 😅 That's a really cool idea though!
@@GlutenbergBible that's all rly interesting if sort of upsetting at points haha. i dont remember if u talked about it in the video but i imagine titus andronicus is a big play in terms of ur research!
@@actual-spinster I don't think I did mention it, but YES! I spend a lot of time talking about Titus. I honestly hate that play haha but it has some really useful bits for my research!
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A common thread that I feel is shared among those who have or are pursuing a PhD is an endless curiosity and fascination with the world. Whether it is going into the darkest depths about a singular topic or fascination about another PhD candidate's research area that is completely unrelated to your own! I had no idea that the intersectionality between food culture & 17th century literature was something that could even be explored. How fascinating! Still, it makes TOTAL sense given the amazing life experiences that eventually led you to graduate school.
I'm a 5th year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology examining how internalized ageism and locus of control beliefs in older adults impact the way they respond to stressors in later life, their motivation for health behavior change, and how this can better inform aging & public health policy. It is CRUNCH TIME for my dissertation right now, and your videos are getting me through the last of it! 18 days until my defense!!😭
Agreed, I love how academics from so many different fields can relate to that feeling of just wanting to go deeper and deeper into a tiny niche! I always love hearing what other peoples' specialties are, yours sounds fascinating and so productive, too.
Good luck with the defense! Can't wait until I can say I'm only 18 days away from that milestone (even though I'm also afraid of it haha 😅)
Might be random and I don’t know your exact defense date but you already passed the point of saying “18 days away from the defense”
I just read this and thought it was such a nice reminder for you to see how far you have come! Best of luck for your defense!!!
And @Laurie_Chin congrats!!
Reading and then writing about what you've read...there's nothing more exhilarating. I knew somewhere around 19 or 20 that I wanted to spend my life writing about the things I've ferreted out to read. No one else really cares about my doctoral thesis topic, but I wrote 415pp. on it. I'd do that again, too, if given the chance.
This is so interesting. Your videos really make me want to go for a PhD , in what? I have no idea lol. You just made me realize that I have a fascination with intercultural relationships throughout history. It literally gets me as excited as you are about your dissertation. Of course I tend to focus on literary depictions of it. Everything from racial, cultural, to robot and human. It doesn't matter. It's likely because I'm the result of it. I didn't notice that until I watched this video. Gotta love when a video completely off topic does that lol.
If you're interested in those kinds of things, you might enjoy the book Tasting Difference by Gitanjali Shahani - I recommend this book all the time, I think it's fascinating! All about early modern cross-cultural contact through food, and the metaphorical and literal ways that colonizing subjects consumed colonized subjects. Shakespeare, recipes, contemporary art, cannibalism... it gets into so many topics in a really interesting way.
I will never get tired of hearing about PhD focuses, I love being an intellect so much as I feel like I always gain such a level of appreciation from hearing about other's dissertation topics.
Watching this after Uptomyknees' "Jepsenology 101" was a vibe 😅.
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this, felt like this was only 10 minutes. Dense, but succinct and to the point.
More like this would be great!
Very fascinating explanation! Ive never thought of all those texts in that perspective, or how those scenes of hospitality have always been charged with *something* that I felt uneasy about. Most recently I watched The Green Knight, and was fascinated/ confused by the scene when the mc is invited to a kings house and (I think?) falls in love with the kings wife.
I’ve wanted to watch The Green Knight! I’ve never actually read the source material (a bit too early for my research) but I see it referenced often in regards to hospitality and the story seems like a very interesting place to see some of these ideas of dangerous intimacy under hospitality playing out…
Doesn't per se fall in love but is more tempted with Lust.
The entire journey is a test on whether or not he is a worthy man
i just read sir gawain and the green knight for a medieval literature class and that section is sooo fascinating. in the poem its structured with these simultaneous alternating scenes of lord bertilak hunting & the lady bertilak attempting to seduce gawain and it's so weird and tense, you don't really know what to make of it. was kind of disappointed by the fact that the film didn't follow the same structure for that section because reading it i found it really cinematic !
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11 years of coursework (undergrad, master’s, and PhD), 10 months of qualify exams and 10 months of my dissertation (expected). That’s wild when you explain it that way!
as an eng lit student writing a thesis kinda related to food studies and sexual politics this is super interesting! I loved learning about ur research process and the way you arrived at ur focus on hospitality. Can really relate to how you think you’re gonna base ur research on one thing but then further research can lead you to something totally different. Truly feels like an endless number of rabbit holes sometimes 😂
That's such a cool topic to be writing about! Have you ever read anything by Elspeth Probyn? I really like her book "Carnal Appetites; FoodSexIdentities," it has some really fascinating discussion of food, sexuality, queer identities, and even cannibalism... not sure if it would have anything to do with your thesis, but if you're into these kinds of topics you might find it interesting!
Love your choice of thematic chapters. Lends itself so well to coining different subtypes of dysfunction to spin off into articles as well as the full book. Congrats on your draft!!
Thank you, actually, I watch your videos in my thesis writing breaks, you inspire me a lot.
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i loooove the sound of your bread / grain early modern essay/project - would you talk more about that? i know you decided not to keep going on with it but i just love bread lol anyway rly enjoyed this video, i think i said this when i commented on one of your first videos here but im a phd student like 30% into my phd [im doing it part time bc im disabled so i'm in my second yr but have quite a few years to go] and it's always super interesting and useful to hear you talk about your research & your interests! you've really opened the door for me in terms of 'food studies' which i didnt ever really consider as a thing before i found your videos, so that's exciting!!
something that interests me about hospitality is not only that it can be about strangers, anxiety, nationhood, borders etc but also in terms of reproduction & pregnancy - gestation itself is maybe a form of hospitality? the only kind of hospitality that can happen within a body? anyway idk if you've ever read anything about that idea but iif you have i would love to know !!
@@actual-spinster Wow, I've never actually thought about pregnancy as a form of hospitality! But I have thought about the body as a site of hospitality, it's a really interesting but kind of uncomfortable thing... some writings describe the body as being a house within which the soul lives or which has doors that can be opened or closed to contamination, and then some of the plays I read talk about a woman's body as a house and sex as a form of hospitality. That last one is where things get a bit weird, because sometimes in plays you'll see an assumption made based on that, that a woman inviting you into her home, is a sexual invitation that extends to her body...
There's also some opportunity for weird and uncomfortable body hospitality ideas when it comes to cannibalism, which is something I talk about a little bit in my dissertation! The borders of the body / the mouth as a threshold over which the guest passes... though in this case the guest is, ya know, turned into food...
...I think it might say something about me that I considered hospitality within a body in regards to cannibalism, before I ever thought about it in regards to pregnancy 😅 That's a really cool idea though!
@@GlutenbergBible that's all rly interesting if sort of upsetting at points haha. i dont remember if u talked about it in the video but i imagine titus andronicus is a big play in terms of ur research!
@@actual-spinster I don't think I did mention it, but YES! I spend a lot of time talking about Titus. I honestly hate that play haha but it has some really useful bits for my research!