in re: http://jordancofer.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-to-engl-4500-writing-for.html
Ok.
My name is Sarah Gibbs. As most of you figured out in class, or knew already, I am not actually a Rural Studies student, though I kind of wish I'd had this option back when I was getting my A.S. from ABAC in 2001. I've always been an avid fan of liberal arts and humanities type classes, despite spending most of my college experience hopping around within the engineering and science tracks, before settling on a Math Education degree, and then altering that to a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis on Math and Natural Sciences and Social Sciences (phew) because I wanted to take a bunch of random Socialism, Anthropology and Literature courses for fun. Yes, I fit in well with the Rural Studies crowd because I take classes for fun. (Yay nerds!)
I haven't chosen my specific research area/track yet, but I am kicking around a few ideas. During one of my study abroad terms, I took a class on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the rest of the Inklings and I wrote a short paper that I particularly enjoyed on Plato's shadow cave analogy, and how Lewis used it to illustrate his understanding of the afterlife. It was very Christian-y, but I approach all things from a very Christian perspective, and I love the ideas of the adult fairy tale to illustrate our understanding of theology. On the other hand, I occasionally write magazine articles about musical topics, and there is always the chance I could expand one of those articles into a breakdown of the whole "indie" identity within popular music and whether it can be manufactured (i.e. the Lana del Rey controversy) or how each generation identifies itself by creating a genre of music that represents individualism and rebellion against the parent generation's music, yet the music itself basically does not change, or at least, recycles heavily from the previous generations.
In other words, at this point, I'm just b.s.-ing a topic, and cheapening every one else's research plans, but hopefully, we'll all end up enjoying the semester anyway.
1 comment:
Sarah,
You are not "cheapening" anyone's research plans and I think either could make a really good topic. I am a fan of the Inklings and once presented a paper at the C.S. Lewis and the Inklings annual conference. That said, I also worked on a Rolling Stone style essay on the new wave rock sound of the early 2000s (The Strokes, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, etc.).
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