call for participants in nyc-area dissertation writing workshop

[Charles Mills]

Week 1: Capitalization

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Meghan Forbes <mlforbes at umich.edu> wrote:

> i am seeking fellow doctoral students in the dissertation writing phase of
> their degree and living in the new york city area, to form a writing
> workshop. participants will ideally meet on a bi-weekly basis to workshop
> chapter excerpts from participants, and productively discuss various issues
> that arise as we write. to provide a multiplicity of perspectives, students
> from across disciplines and universities are warmly welcome. the goal is to
> create a supportive, non-threatening space to keep us all writing & to
> generate constructive feedback from peers outside our own home departments.
>
> if interested, please write to mlforbes at umich.edu with a brief
> description of your dissertation project, how far along you are in the
> writing process, what you’d like to get out of the workshop, and a general
> sense of your availability, *by december 31st*. a very brief writing
> sample (2-3 pages) would be helpful but is not required. from all
> applications, i will put together a group of 5 students (plus myself) that
> appear to have the potential to work together most effectively.
>
> i’d like to hold the first meeting of the workshop will be held the week
> of january 13th, at which point we can collaboratively settle on specific
> goals for the workshop, and a convenient meeting place(s).
>
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> about me : i am a 4th-year doctoral student in the slavic department of
> the university of michigan, also affiliated with the german department. i
> have recently returned from a research trip to prague, where i worked
> primarily in the literary archive, looking at letters, personal
> photographs, and clippings of members of the interwar czech avant-garde. in
> its early stages, my dissertation maps the network of exchange between
> czechs such as karel teige and vitezslav nezval and participants in other
> european avant-garde and modernist movements, namely the bauhaus in germany
> and surrealism in france. the dissertation chapters are organized by media
> – letters, typography, photography – rather than geographic regions. this
> academic year, i am writing from brooklyn, and hope to complete an early
> draft of the dissertation by the summer, when i plan to travel to paris &
> berlin to complete research. i have a master’s degree from columbia
> university, and received my bachelor’s in art history from nyu.
>
> i am also the founder and co-editor of *harlequin creature
> <http://www.harlequincreature.org/>*, an arts & literary journal, that
> attempts to be avant-garde in retrograde, by employing no digital
> reproduction in its production process.
>
> meghan forbes
>  doctoral candidate
> university of michigan, ann arbor
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