Madden and Reading Autobiography

Chapter 2: Agency  To some, the “rules” of narrative demand chronology and resolution. Madden brazenly refuses to oblige. There is incredible agency in the way she unravels this memory for us and brings us with her to step outside of it, to feel it, and to analyze why she relayed it in this way. She […]

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Final Project Pamphlet

For my final project, I examined “The Autobiography of Mrs. Caroline Homassel Thornton” written by and about my great (6x) grandmother. I present my findings in the form of a pamphlet. This was inspired by something I had read in Before They Could Vote by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith, a theoretical text exploring female […]

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Final Project

  In my 10th year of high school, I took a trip to Nepal in order to gain a different perspective on my own life. I also traveled to learn more about a culture that I did not know much about. I journaled and self-reflected about my experiences daily for personal use. In this colloquium, […]

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Final Marginalia

For my project, I wanted to emphasize a concept that we had introduced in class, particularly in our reading of Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, called marginalia. Essentially, these are just the little notes scribbled into the spare space and scattered within the lines of novels, hand-marked by the reader. I did a decent […]

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Final Presentation

Link to Google Slides Unlisted Video Link Reflection: The video-making and editing were very fun to do. Seeing all the songs, transitions, and everything fall into place was satisfying. Only part that was hard about this final was making time to do research as multiple other finals required me time to study. This project and […]

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Final: A Sense of Place

In my final project I decided to film bits of my day for a couple of weeks, and then string this footage together and couple it with narration and music. My narration was based heavily on research I did on video and autobiography, and in this reflection, I will expound upon the topics I touched […]

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