While cleaning up my hard drive recently, I found a folder of papers I wrote in grad school. Some of them aren’t total shit, but the titles are. So I’ve renamed them to reflect my post-academic hopes: that somebody besides me might ever want to read them.
I swear to God, the original titles are real. Feel free to make fun.
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Original Title: The Usefulness of Unease in Jacobean Tragedy
New Title: SO, UHH, INCEST. YEP. WELL. IT SOMETIMES WORKS AS A NARRATIVE DEVICE. NOPE.
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Original Title: The Essay is the Genre that Encloses All Others: Shifting & Collapsing Aldous Huxley’s Magnetic Poles
New Title: IMAGONNA CALL A BUNCH OF ESSAYS THAT AREN’T ESSAYS “ESSAYS” #becausephd
or:
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Original Title: A New New Critical Approach: The Interinanimation of Emily Dickinson
New Title:
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Original Title: Modernism and the Negotiation of the Influence of the Past
New Title: EZRA POUND & T.S. ELIOT WERE DICKS
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Original Title: “Doubt about everything/Published above us in the dark”: The Mutual Incomprehension of Science and Literature
New Title:
or:
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Original Title: Poetic Excrement: In His Verses, Jonathan Swift Shits
New Title: POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP: IT’S NEVER NOT FUNNY
or:
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Original Title: Percy Shelley’s Poetry of Science & the Possibility of an Even Embrace
New Title:
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Original Title: The Poetics of Inelegance: A Defense of Richard Brautigan and the Vernacular Sublime
New Title: PUMP YA BRAKES & QUIT TALKING SHIT ABOUT RICHARD BRAUTIGAN’S POETRY
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Original Title: Entropy: Dispersal as Deterioration as Creation
New Title:
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Original Title: Sprezzatura: Henry James & the Real Imagined & the Imagined Real
New Title: HJ: MAKING FICTION FEEL LIKE NOT-FICTION SINCE 1875
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Original Title: Literature as Philosophy as Literature as Psychology as Literature
New Title:
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Original Title: A Neo-Aristotelian and Burkian Analysis of the Futurist Manifesto
New Title:
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Original Title: Emily Dickinson and the Dilemma of Paratexts
New Title:
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Original Title: A Case Against the Dismissal of Quantitative Verse
New Title: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS PAPER IS ABOUT. YOU SHOULD READ IT AND TELL ME.
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Tags: academia, grad school, humor, jess stoner, writing
Hey, good for you – only about half of these have a colon in them. I think it’s mandatory for history grad papers to have colons in them. “Here are a Bunch of Words You Don’t Need to Read: Only Now Will I Finally Tell You What This Paper Is About.”
Snappy Title I Thought Up: What This Paper is Actually About
I just submitted a paper to a journal and they had a character limit on titles (even though I saw recent publications that were over this character count, what gives) so I had to take off my snappy title. I’m still kind of mad because it was a good snappy title.
I kept thinking of Tracy Jordan’s “Betrayal Colon What Really Happened With My Baseball Team Comma Disaster at Knuckle Beach Question Mark” when I was looking through my old papers!
ugh scientists do this too with journal articles and it is so dumb. Bro you have a Ph.D., maybe you can think of a concise title?
This reminds me of that glorious Veep line: “It’s so full of shit, there’s a colon right in the middle”. It was said in reference to Selina’s book, “Some New Beginnings: Our Next American Journey”, but it would be equally appropriate to pretty much everything I wrote in college.
HAHA. I’ll have to use that line next time I’m reading/writing another article with a colon..
Whatevs, colon-laden titles are the best!
(One of my undergrad professors said I always had good titles for the papers I handed in to her. I’m pretty sure she was just hypnotized by the colons because those suckers literally were always Vaguely Relevant Quote: Subject of the Paper.)
Ha. The title of my MA thesis had a colon in it 😀
That’s every museum exhibit title I ever worked with. “Completely Obscure/Random Quote That No One Will Understand: Explanation That Reminds You That You’re Not As Cultured/Knowledgeable As We Are.”
My favorite first-part exhibit title was: “Poor of Me, Good of Dog.” Good luck figuring out what that one meant.
yep, if you don’t put a colon in your papers it’s not academic-ese
Fun “fact” (urban/academic legend)– the real purpose behind this naming format is Boolean searches. In the days of the Arpanet or whatnot, the colon + second title made it easier to search. And now it’s just habit.
The best paper title I ever received from a student was:
“Clever Pun Colon Descriptive Phrase”
last night i had drinks with my favorite professor from college and i recalled the most egregiously bad title i ever produced for her class.
“robin hood versus robbin’ the hood: popular depictions of white and black criminality.”
so.
High five! I’m guilty of “I Ain’t Sayin’ She’s a Golddigger: Pamela, Shamela, and Fielding’s Parodic Technique”
I definitely forgot to retitle my paper about material culture in Dickens’ Great Expectations and submitted it with the title “(Fear and Loa)Things in ‘Great Expectations’,” which isn’t even that clever to begin with. DOUBLE SHAME.
But that is actually really amazing!
I once wrote a paper about Jewish ghettoes in medieval Europe and entitled it “There Was No Room at the Inn” on the suggestion of a classmate. I had NO IDEA that it was referencing the manger until 12 hours before handing it in and my editor told me (Jew problems!). I gave the title a footnote to explain to my professor the ridiculousness. My professors let me get away with a lot. I’m pretty sure I got an A anyway.
A+ titling, well done.
Paper about the Burgess Shale Fauna: “And Now For Something Completely Different:…”, paper about industrial agriculture and intellectual property law, “The Legal Field:….” High fives all around for lame puns and questionably relevant cultural references in academic paper writing!
Appropriately just got notified of a talk coordinated by my undergrad program entitled “THE THIRST IS REAL: Water Resources and Scarcity in the U.S.”
Screw Bitches, Stay Classy: An Analysis of Henry’s Perpetuation of Misogyny and Classism in Henry V.
I was browsing through my google docs the other day and encountered THIS IS YOUR FUCKING THESIS YOU IDIOT.docx
I’m pretty sure a version titled that got submitted to my thesis advisor. He gave no shits.
I did that a lot, the private-angry-title. One term paper started as HARPOONING THE WHALE.doc (I really didn’t want to do it) and then went through alphabetical variations of ________ THE WHALE.doc. Thank god most of my teachers asked for paper hand-ins.
When I worked for the campus newspaper, the Editor in Chief used to have to change the calendar every week, send it to us for formatting into the space, and so on. It was a stupid, boring, pointless waste of time that almost nobody read, and his titles ranged from “i don’t want to do this.txt” to “fuck this calendartxt” to “this is the fucking calendar, put it on the fucking page AGAIN.txt.”
Since switching to a history major, I think every paper or presentation I’ve written has involved a colon. This is either an unconscious empathetic influence at work, or a hold-over from irritatedly writing headlines.
Awww man, my private titles are really boring. I think the working one for my most recent was “GOT imagination” (as I was writing something on Game of Thrones and imagination.) But I always save them into ones with capital letters when I send them to anyone. That’s about all I do.
There’s a file on my work desktop entitled “evilspreadsheetfromhell.xlsx.”
My dissertation, 8 years later, is still FuckingDissertation.doc and lives in a folder titled “Entire Fucking Thing.”
I still have “BEOWULF MUST DIE.doc” on my computer; I can’t bear to get rid of it.
I am pretty sure this is a similar naming convention used by my adviser anything of mine he had to review…
Is that you Roger?
“Doubt about everything/Published above us in the dark”: The Mutual Incomprehension of Science and Literature
*nods sagely at Jess, does secret handsignal of the Society of People Who Really Abused the “Mystifying Quote: Pretentious Semititle” Format In their Essay-writing Days*
YUP. See:
“Dear Listeners…”: The Utopia of the Absurd in Welcome to Night Vale
and
“Like a mermaid in a ship’s cabin”: The Wild Human and Domestic Animal in Housekeeping
what does it mean? WHO KNOWS
“This before all the world do I prefer” : Parenthood in Titus Andronicus
My TA essay title.
“There speak and strike”: Multiplying Motivation in Titus Andronicus
(Titus high stump-five!)
At least 60% of my titles followed this format! I think it was the fact that I always had [Title] until the paper was entirely done and I was quite panicky about the deadline but also somehow DGAFing about further effort, thus relying on my trusty formula.
Btw, is your username a ref to the Faerie Queene? I recently found a paper from school I entitled “Swallowed Up Unwares”: Danger and Female Agency in the Faerie Queene. My professor showed great restraint by not commenting on the fairly gleeful tone I took re: dumbass knights never realizing when women were manipulating them!
gurrl it is totally a FQ reference! I wrote my Spenser term paper about Britomart (“The Trouble With Britomart: Contradictions in Being and Seeming,” lol)
Also, what even is the point of writing about the Faerie Queene if not to cackle gleefully at the clueless male knights? And furthermore: Guyon, you are a THUG and no one is impressed that you destroyed the bower of bliss, and Scudamour, you are a scrub.
Haha this is the BEST!! I agree with all of this and am pretty sure Scudamour was actually the original inspiration for TLC’s magnum opus. His game IS pretty weak and you know that he cannot approach [his imprisoned love]
I still have to actively stop myself from doing this. Even though I have basically been in school forever now.
Or stupid puns! Man, do I love stupid puns.
(Because you’re Spenserian, here’s my favorite one in the whole wide world: http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Faerie-Queene-Renaiss…
HJ: MAKING FICTION FEEL LIKE NOT-FICTION SINCE 1875
oh right that also stands for Henry James. true both ways though!
personally I became so heartily sick of ass jokes in paper titles in grad school, from established scholars more than from fellow students, that my own tended to take the form of DRAB FACET OF CLASSICAL WORK: a discussion of the thing it’s discussing . and I felt good about it.
I would like very much to set fire to every paper (and possibly their authors) with some version of the “Verbing the Noun, Nouning the Verb” and other self-reflexive titles.
“elektra-fying: the role of the mother in Perrault’s Cinderella.”
Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot WERE dicks.
Ezra Pound fucked off out of town while his wife was pregnant, and when she went into labor and Pound was still gone, Hemingway took her to the hospital.
Top ten signs you’re an asshole: motherfucking ERNEST HEMINGWAY is picking up your parenting slack.
(Also the fascism, of course.)
It’s bad that I want to read that last one, isn’t it? It’s bad. I should stop that.
You can have it! I’ll email it to you. I started re-reading it and gave up.
Oh my god oh my god best topic. Most of my undergrad liberal arts papers were angry feminist rants about whatever was pertinent to the particular lit or art history class I was taking, which lead to titles like “Fatal Attractions: Art and Sexuality in Vienna 1900” and “GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: “WOMAN-ARTIST””. I’m sure I was a joy to have in class.
I’m guessing there are ferocious air-quotes surrounding the real quotation marks in “WOMAN-ARTIST”
Oh absolutely. I’m fairly certain that professor was young, put upon male adjunct, too. The whole paper was about what a raging asshole Alfred Stieglitz was.
ALL of my art history papers ended up being Some Things We Looked At + GENDER >:[. And I ALWAYS did the Snappy Phrase: Real Description title. I honestly figured there was no other way. Why aren’t I gonna write about the patriarchy? And where else am I gonna put my puns but the title?
I feel like my first time acknowledging that I’ve given good papers terrible titles was also the moment that I realized just how much I’d learned. Two early masterpieces of mine that complement each other nicely: “More than Just Words: the Role of Language in The God of Small Things“; “Times of Injustice: The Use of Time in Slaughterhouse Five and The Stranger.” And another, which aptly describes my feelings about such weak titles: “An Awareness of the Abyss.” No, I won’t make fun you of. I stand in solidarity.
(Legitimately ridiculous title about a mixture of beliefs as they pertain to death ritual: “The Depth of Dvoeverie? At Least Six Feet Under!” yaaay Russian folklore class.)
All academic papers about science, literature, or science and literature must now be titled with otter GIFs. Ex:
I second the motion & also I don’t even need to take a vote, as I’m positive the ‘aye’s have it, so the motion carries, this is now law, the end.
The title I am most proud of was an independent study paper about my boner for Dusty Springfield called, “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me: Performative Femme.”
…that professor let me get away with a lot.
I can’t stop reading “titles” as “TITTIES,” you guys.
My titties are pretentious as HELL
there is a colon in the middle of my titties
That’s…inconvenient.
…or is it?
Ehrmagerd Girl, I feel the same way about Jabès.
So … I think we might have written the same paper on Jonathan Swift … (I can’t remember what mine was called, but I am 100% certain that “POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP: It’s Never Not Funny” would have been a WAY better choice.)
Pull a line from Calvin and Hobbes: “POOP: If it’s funny the first time, it’s funny EVERY time”
I adamantly refused to put a colon in my thesis. It was just “Topic and Sub-topic.” I felt really proud of that one.
you rebel!
I was looking to see if I had one of my Titus Andronicus essays in my e-mails somewhere (the title was something like, “Give Them a Hand,” but I see I have one now called “Silly Boys, They Do Something That Hurts Many People” which is mostly about American anti-heroes.
In my case, they were* almost always quotes from a primary text ironically or thematically related to subject, so Apposite Quote: Actual Subject of Paper.
*OH FINE, they are. I just finished a thinkpiece about horror movies that’s basically entitled Widely Quoted Movie Line: Thing Transgresses Other Thing It Really Really Shouldn’t.
Over in classics, ours were usually Tag In Dead Language: What Paper Is About.
e.g. Stercus Fit: Manure and the Passage of Time in Cato’s On Agriculture.
(I wish now I’d written this paper)
I’ve always wanted to write a paper titled with a line from one of my former historical subjects as a title: “The Abundant and Remarkable Fungus-flora of Dung.”
Hey we do that in sociology, too. Or we do Relevant quote or fancy phrase: concept, concept, and concept. We’re also real fond of the ironic parentheses.
p.s., I once wrote a paper about Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 that might as well be entitled Nothing like the Sun: VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA, and someday we’re going to crowd around it like a campfire. It’s beautiful.
Nothing Like the Sun: Why Alan Rickman Should Read ALL Of Shakespeare’s Sonnets To Me, In Person, and Also VAGINA.
I once turned in a paper titled “Stuff is Things: The Politics of Acquisition in Robinson Crusoe”
To be fair I was an English major who put off taking an introductory major course for three years because I knew it was going to be boring as hell and I hate the enlightenment. The professor let me get away with a lot of things. I also fully and completely ascribed to the “Snappy Phrase: Actual Description of Paper” style of titling.
I would read this.
if you don’t use a snappy phrase how are they going to remember your paper, is what I want to know
I always, always try to make a pun in titles for my papers, whether the professors get it or not. My undergrad thesis was about hysteria and nomadic theory, and I called it “Wandering Wombs: *insert fancy-schmancy subtitle with lots of difficult words*”. That one made me feel pretty clever.
I was all about that too! My undergrad thesis was about poststructuralism and comedy (lol idk but it was dull) and I went with “Genre Trouble.” That document also had a lot of inexplicable Shakespeare jokes hidden in it.
And I wrote a 25 page grad paper on pop music just so that I could use the phrase “Lorde and Lady Gaga” and I think that is intimately related to the fact that I am no longer in grad school.
I once titled a lit paper with a Billy Idol lyric as a joke; my professor was very confused.
I did a string of undergrad history papers as “pulp lyrics: fancy uni words”
ok, in your defense, “Jonathan Swift Shits” is pretty damn good. Like, that would be a great band name.
Actually I think “Literature as Philosophy as Literature as Psychology as Literature” is the first album by Jonathan Swift Shits. They’re kind of mumblequeer, kind of postcore, you might not be into it.
You might not be into it, but I saw them back in 2000 at a bar in Reno. Y’know, before they were cool.
“Macbitch or Which Witch is Which?: Duplication and Duplicity in *Macbeth*”
Well, that’s just perfect.
To this date, my crowning academic achievement is “Men are from Uranus: Homosexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century.”
After that our professor stopped letting us choose our own paper topics.
I think this thread needs more otters.
http://discourseontheotter.tumblr.com/
I think the one I’m proudest of is “Boys in Boxes: The Recipe for a Welsh Hero.” (I’m still looking at the cake mix aisle for this one to show up for real.) Though “Everybody Must Get Stoned: Megaliths and Movies” is another favorite. “Heads or Grails? A Reassessment of the Celtic Origin of the Grail Legend” (this one actually was about whether the Grail was originally a severed head); “Lions and Vipers and Knights, Oh My! Representations of the Otherworld in Iarlles y Ffynnawn”; “Here Comes the Son: Roman Religion, Celtic Mythology, Dark Age History and Owein”; “Lugh: The Shod God?” … I could go on. Celtic Studies is very much “Pun/Pop Culture Quote: Something in This Text.” The one I want to go back to is “The Bad Anthropology Film Festival.”
Goddamn, I wish I wasn’t at work so I could pull up my Uni Stuff File and trade you a bunch of terribly-punning medieval Welsh law and mythology paper titles. Also I did a paper on the parallels between Peredur (and/or Percival) and Harry Potter, in which Harry is Peredur, Draco Malfoy is Cai and Dumbledore is the Fisher King (not sure what the Grail was, probably the Goblet of Fire or maybe all three Hallows at once).
As an almost-poetry MFA student, now Rhetoric Ph.D. student, I appreciate the shoutouts to both Richard Brautigan as well as Neo-Aristotelianism and Burke. I always got shit from my old poetry profs because of how much I actually like Brautigan.
Also, it goes without saying that I’m still totally ensconced in the world of shitty paper titles. This hit very close to home.
I wrote a paper once about figs and fig wasps that was titled “[some pretentious shit I can’t remember]: A case for antagonistic coevolution within the framework of cooperative mutualism” and I can convince myself this gif works on a couple levels:
http://33.media.tumblr.com/fd6f76c969fe540bb4c968…
WHO IS TALKING SHIT ABOUT RICHARD BRAUTIGAN I WILL PAIN THEM IN THE FACE.
THE FACE!!!!
That whole paper is just me calling August Kleinzhaler (who dissed RB’s poetry) an uptight asshole and then talking about how much I love “I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t” and the image of sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.
everyone knows about lol my thesis, right? a recent example that I enjoy:
“If you stop being such an arrogant asshole, your startup may succeed
Public Relations, London College of Communication”
Holy crap I didn’t know about that site. Amazing.
I definitely submitted my thesis there oop
My final grad school paper was simply “Heroes and Villains, Virgins and Whores” because I figured you can’t assign Ulysses and then get silly about propriety.
Now that I’m back at my home computer, I went through all my files from undergrad and oh my god. I think my favorite is “Zizek at the Overlook Hotel” for the mental image, but a close second has to go (collectively) to the following series of titles from my response papers for the comics class I took:
Sub-Mariner: Conflicted Prince of the Seas
May and Otto: True Love?
What’s So Great About Rorschach?
One more, from a detective fiction class: “Marlowe: Hardboiled, But Easily Cracked”
Oooh, slap ’em up here when you have the chance! But really, did Rowling actually fail to include a severed head (completely severed, not just nearly) anywhere in Harry Potter that could stand in for Peredur’s bloody non-Grail?
Sweet! I’m totally changing the title of my diss to “Science + Literature: NOW KISS.” Let me amend my job letters.
SHOD GOD. SHOD GOD. SHOD GOD. I can’t get over this. It’s funnier the longer I think about it. THE SHOD GOD. BECAUSE OF THE SHOEMAKING!
I love you.
I haven’t got a lot of fabulous titles, but I could write a mean first sentence, such as this one:
“Every student leads at least two lives: one life in which they are dedicated learners who consider abstract ideas with intellectual vigor, and one life in which they do things that would never be mentioned in the context of their student life, such as engaging in hedonistic all-night dance parties. ”
(the paper was regarding ancient spiritual trance dances and modern raves being basically the same thing.)
Like many other people above me, I wanna say that “Poetic Excrement: In His Verses, Jonathan Swift Shits” is a TOTALLY legit paper title. Yes, “POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP, POOP: IT’S NEVER NOT FUNNY” is ALSO good, but I think the original is hella tight in its own right.
One paper I wrote was
“What we talk about when we talk about talking: The Short stories of Raymond Carver.”
I still think it was kind of brilliant/lame.
Brillame.
This is a delight and has sent me back to my undergrad and MA files. I was absolutely insufferable. Behold, every variety of snappy title:
Helen and the Neverending Story
Paint-by-Numbers: The Creation of Identity in “Andrea del Sarto” and “In an Artist’s Studio”
Sympathy for the Duchess: Witchcraft, Power and Discourse in The Duchess of Malfi
Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Construction and Maintenance of Queen Elizabeth’s Bodily Image
“Intendo io, quel mi bastera”: The Struggle to Enunciate Experience in The Spanish Tragedy
Slippery When Wet: The Unsettling Liquidity and Permeability of Bodies in The Revenger’s Tragedy
Oh, dear lord: “Calgon, Take Me Away: Bathsheba and Her Voyeurs”
Slippery when wet!!
…before knowing the Nazis were coming WAS cool. OMG
One of my great joys of essay writing (for English degrees) was coming up with quotes from the texts I was using. Usually, they weren’t great, but for my literature-in-context essay for my MA, I came up with ‘”They always leave gentlemen”: Harry Potter and the changing class politics of the boarding school novel’. Because honestly, I was already the one trying to write about Harry Potter when everyone else was VERY excited about modernism.
On the other hand, I got to use my favourite weird reference book on the history of boarding schools, which starts off as a normal, well-researched history book and ends with the writer recounting bizarre personal stories about what happened to his friends, and complaining that not enough of them happened to him. (It’s called “The Public School Phenomenom, 597-1977”, and by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, because of course you want to read it.)
I OWN THAT BOOK, HARRIET.
YES!
Heh, I loved this. I so made stuff up when writing my Masters thesis. I mean, I didn’t make stuff up. I just really stretched the interpretation of certain aspects of what other people wrote so it would fit my thesis. But then, it was an Arts degree, so that’s kind of a requirement, right?
Aww, I feel all left out that all my project titles were medical related and super boring, although my husband did try to get me to change my giggle incontinence case study title to “teehee or weewee? Current treatment options for giggle incontinence.” (Is it clear which of us was the humanities major?)
That’s a FANTASTIC title.
One time in college I didn’t sleep for like three days and thought it would be hilarious to submit a final paper titled “Bad Romance: Depression and Support in Adolescent Romantic Relationships.” Yep, Lady Gaga references were the height of humor for me at that point.
I always found that footnotes were where things got the silliest, where at two AM, when I’d be doing a final edit, and would come up with a funny comment about some point I was making, and just think ‘I bet my professor would think that was funny too!’ Most of the time I caught it before I handed it in the next morning, but. not. always.
I always found that footnotes were where things got the silliest, where at two AM, when I'd be doing a final edit, and would come up with a funny comment about some point I was making, and just think 'I bet my professor would think that was funny too!' Most of the time I caught it before I handed it in the next morning, but. not. always.
Tangent: A friend from grad school shared this article on Facebook and as I was reading it I had this startling sense of familiarity. There was something about the Emily Dickinson and Entropy titles and the personality of the jokes and deprecation that was just uncanny. And now I’m completely sure that I took your Poetry Since 1945 class where you did your PhD–which was wonderful, and you were wonderful, and I hope you’re doing well.
Best,
PG.
I would forward this to my graduate students except I am terrified that they will find out my online identity and realize how much time I spend fucking around on the internet instead of, you know, WORKING.
My thesis title was ‘textual healing: mediating concept and context through practice’, because it was submitted with an artwork that was set to ‘sexual healing’ and i have a bad sense of humour. My advisor didn’t know the title until it was marked. That went well.
When my grad school friends and I were drunkenly walking around in NYC, I came up with this game where you pick any phrase on any billboard/bus/sign: this becomes the text before the colon in the dissertation, and then you have to make up a relevant/absurd actual-explanatory post-colon title. E.g. “Hop on, hop off” [tour bus sign]: Prostitution and the development of the railroad in nineteenth-century England. Ready…go!
I once worked a St. Vincent lyric into a really shitty sophomore undergrad paper about Emily Dickinson and death. In my defense, I was writing it at the last minute and had to do SOMETHING to make myself feel better about how bad the paper was.
The only paper I ever wrote with an even slightly interesting title was “Clown Found Dead: Variety Obituaries of Minor Entertainers”.
WOULD READ.
The titles I was proudest of in grad school:
“Time and Relative Darwinism in Space: Darwinism, Wells, and the Time-Travel Narrative” (prof did not get the reference)
“Verisimilitude and the Vlog: Illuminating the Fiction of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries” (two Darcyisms!)
Is it bad that I really want to read the futurism paper? Its one of the few opportunities when my dual degrees in fine arts and philosophy can make me feel elite rather than useless.
Absolutely love this. My grad school chef d’oeuvre was titled “Penetration of the spirit: the violation of privacy in Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos” of which I was simultaneously extremely proud and totally aware.
I just finished a paper titled “From Parlance to Discourse: Military Veterans and Academic Writing.”
Working title: “Destroy All Humans: A Cat’s Manifesto.”
I just finished a paper titled "From Parlance to Discourse: Military Veterans and Academic Writing."
Working title: "Destroy All Humans: A Cat's Manifesto."