Because this is my last semester at USC Upstate, I'm taking Senior Seminar: essentially, a 15-week-long writing workshop for a capstone paper. Knowing that I was going to take this course, I brainstormed all year for topic ideas. Writing 25 pages is easy for me, but a good, meaty thesis can be difficult to come by. … Continue reading Scrap: Connecting the Dots
I got some new material this week for a scholarly article I've been mulling over for quite some time. The essay, titled---in my head---"The Real: a Psychoanalytic Approach to Body Horror," would combine Slavoj Žižek's interpretation of Jacques Lacan's Order of the Real with squirmy, David Lynch-style scenes from literature and film in order to discuss how and … Continue reading Scrap: Writing about Horror