Several entries ago, I reported the discovery of Jill Walker’s site documenting the explorations of her PhD program. I’ve now found several more and have realized that they, along with mine, describe the narrative arc of our PhD programs, or at least portions of our programs. My blog attempts to tell the unfolding story of my encounters with story.
Danah Boyd, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, explores “how people negotiate their presentation of self in mediated social contexts to an unknown audience.”
Christy Dena’s sites cover a number of fields, including Writer Response Theory, New Media Arts, and the ones of greatest interest to me, Polymorphic Narrative, and CrossMediaStorytelling. Dena is a PhD candidate at New Media and Creative Writing, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.
I also keep another blog, password protected and mostly for my own benefit and that of my doctoral committee, that traces the narrative arc of the process of my program, where this one is about content.
I find fascinating the idea of being able to follow the stories of intellectual discovery of globally far-flung scholars.