twitter: @eugenio_fouz
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EXILIO INTERIOR
7 a.m.
EUGENIO FOUZ
“Los teléfonos móviles serán inteligentes el día que te digan
«yo no mandaría ese mensaje si fuera tú»" (@MejoresTwits)
'Ha salido el sol y lo sé porque ha sonado la alarma del teléfono. Mi teléfono es inteligente. Claro que la alarma suena porque yo quiero. Hoy estoy de vacaciones y no tendría que saber que son las 7 a.m. Ya no soy el tipo agradable que solía ser. No soy ese alarde de simpatía a que le tenía acostumbrado, querido lector. Hoy me paso el día pegado a un teléfono blanco. Parezco idiota, en serio. Me tiene como hipnotizado. Hoy por hoy podría decirse que entre mi smartphone y yo existe una relación de dependencia similar a la relación que mantienen en una oración compuesta subordinada la frase principal con la subordinada. Y mi tamagotchi no sería en ningún caso la frase subordinada. En otras palabras, creo que estoy pillado.
Antes yo solía mirar a la cara de la gente cuando le hablaba. Era feliz, comunicativo y sociable. Sonreía a menudo, prestaba atención a las anécdotas, me reía de vez en cuando. Tenía pocos amigos, pero los tenía. Leía novelas en vacaciones, subrayaba los libros. No conocía el GPS ni el wasap, no tenía alarma en el móvil, o apenas la usaba. Por descontado no miraba el calendario ni preparaba avisos con tonos a cada hora. Cuando viajaba me gustaba preguntar una dirección en la gasolinera, comprar algún souvenir, hablar del tiempo en el bar o quejarme del tráfico en la autovía y pedir café. Recuerdo los viajes como aventuras y me veo a mí mismo siendo el explorador, estudiando mapas. Yo era un peregrino, un caminante haciendo el camino.
Y sin embargo, ahora suelo estar mohíno y sieso. Solo soy un tío sociable en las redes sociales y, por si fuera poco, en diferido. Rastreo las wifis en la calle, miro el correo todo el rato, pienso un tuit y lo tecleo y lo escribo. No falta un cargador en mi equipaje. Y contrariamente a lo que recitaba San Juan de la Cruz “vivo, porque no vivo”. El omnipresente ojo me cuida y me acompaña. Hago una foto y la envío ya a Twitter. La estoy enviando. Mi juguetito y yo. Salimos a tomar algo los dos. Mirándonos el uno al otro cruzamos no sé cuántas calles, salvamos semáforos y tecleamos buenos días y buenas tardes. El pañuelo es un mundo. No veo acercarse al camarero de la terraza que me pregunta qué voy a tomar. Le digo que un café cortado sin pensar. Esto es un sinvivir y ni me cuestiono el sentido del título “Vivir para contarla” del Nobel colombiano.
Antes la vida era otra cosa. Los niños no estaban siempre tan ocupados, tenían buenos modales y querían que les contasen cuentos sus padres. Por lo general todos pensábamos en voz baja y éramos más discretos. Nos aburríamos y perdíamos el tiempo. Sabíamos esperar y desesperar. A veces estábamos solos de remate. Vivíamos la vida.'
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9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Ph.D. Program in Literature, Criticism, and Textual Studies
Marissa Stickel
'For seven years I worked tirelessly through my undergraduate and graduate programs all in hopes of getting accepted into a fully-funded Ph.D. program. I have a BA in English and French, and an MA in English and Women’s and Gender Studies, and through each of these degrees, I networked, participated in departmental events, and tried to make a name for myself throughout the universities I was a student at. I jumped through every hoop during my bachelor's and master's; I worked up to five jobs at a time to help cover application fees and moving expenses. After waiting months in confusion and turmoil after application season, I was finally accepted into a program.
If you are thinking about pursuing a Ph.D., here are some helpful tips to contemplate. They range from discussing the preparation and application process, as well as an in-depth look into the devastating, challenging, exciting, and memorable moments that make up the academic world.
Be prepared to move quite a bit..-Moving was something I had anticipated early on in college. Growing up in WV, I knew that I would have to leave the state to pursue post-graduate work. Since graduating from college and beginning my doctorate, I have moved five times; three of those five times have been to different states for a specific degree program, while the other two times I moved were across town to decrease my expenses by getting a roommate. That might not seem like a lot, but moving is expensive—especially across several different states. And, for English majors, we have books on books on books. Embrace the minimalist style and buy only what you need—especially when it comes to books. Don’t plan on studying Victorian Literature for the long haul? Then, don’t hold on to the Wilkie Collins collections that’ll surely only collect dust on a shelf.'
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dearenglishmajor.com/9-things-i-wish-i-knew-before
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About the author of the post, PhD student Marissa Stickel
Marisa Stickel, doctoral student
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comments on @quora
doing a PhD
Ri Hathout, , I watch about ten films a week, most of them not in English.
Jul 9, 2016
'I think there are few things you need to think about. There is a lot of romance around the study of literature, and the fact that you mention you ‘admire the life of literature majors’ makes me think you may not have the whole picture of what doing a PhD in literature involves.
Very briefly, I am answering this question because I started a literature PhD in a very prestigious UK university. I had a lot of friends who were also doing literature PhDs, including my best friend and housemate for two years. Here are some things no one tells you about doing a literature PhD:
doing a PhD in literature is extremely hard, it is mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting, and it takes over your life in a way that is incomparable to anything else. Although the practical aspects of it could be compared to a 9–5 job, the fact of the matter is that your research never leaves you. Even when you’re at home cooking, you’re thinking about work. When you’re out for some well-deserved relaxation, you feel guilty about not doing work. You watch TV and halfway through the program you think of or remember something to do with your research, and end up working into the small hours of the morning. It’s very common for literature PhDs to say ‘I hate my PhD’ because it’s very common to feel it. And by the time they finish their thesis, most people can’t wait to see the back of it.
being talented, intelligent, hardworking, and committed does not mean you will succeed. There is a high rate of extremely intelligent and committed people quitting their PhDs halfway through because they realise they can’t take the pressure, or because they realise they simply don’t have what it takes. Not everyone’s mind bends in the way it needs to bend in order to be a good literature scholar.
doing a literature PhD isn’t (only) about sitting around reading literature you enjoy. In fact, reading literature is a very small part of it. Research degrees are more about reading criticism, primary and secondary source material, going to conferences, writing papers, and organising, drafting, writing and re-writing your work. This is punctuated by long periods of agonising self-questioning and doubt about your choices, abilities, and future.
even if you’ve wanted to be an academic all your life, and you succeed in getting a PhD, it doesn’t mean you'll get work. I had two very talented and driven friends at Uni. Both got their PhDs and one of them was headhunted before she’d even passed her viva. She ended up quitting within a couple of years, and moving away from academia. The other (who, by the way, was probably the best candidate out of an exceptionally good bunch) finished her PhD and was unable to find a job in academia for months. She ended up jacking it in and moving away from academia too.
A PhD in any discipline isn’t something you would just do because you’re fond of the subject matter. It takes time, commitment, money, talent, and a bit of luck. Even people who go into literature PhDs as a part of a well thought-through, defined career path (BA in literature, MA in Literature, PhD in Literature, postdocs and fellowships) can find it extremely difficult if not impossible to finish.
You are already committed to an engineering PhD, which you want to pursue as a career. Having a full-time job and doing a masters (which you’ll need to do) and then a PhD seems extremely unlikely.
Once you’ve taken all these things into account, and decided you still want to go forward with it:
do an MA in Literature, and excel in it
come up with a viable, original research proposal for a project
find a potential supervisor whose research interests match yours, approach them, and if they agree to supervise you, apply for a place at the university they’re in
apply for funding
start the PhD and see where it takes you'
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Cultural Studies
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'Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with or operating through social phenomena. These include ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Employing cultural analysis, cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes. The field of cultural studies encompasses a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives and practices. Although distinct from the discipline of cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of ethnic studies, cultural studies draws upon and has contributed to each of these fields.
Cultural studies was initially developed by British Marxist academics in the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world. Cultural studies is avowedly and even radically interdisciplinary and can sometimes be seen as anti-disciplinary. A key concern for cultural studies practitioners is the examination of the forces within and through which socially organized people conduct and participate in the construction of their everyday lives.'
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wikipedia.org/Cultural Studies
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