I echo Dana’s comment! This challenge really helped me figure out what kinds of resources are available in the H Commons repository, as well as how to find resources best suited to my research. To complete the challenge, I decided to look up articles related to my dissertation topic. At first, I wasn’t finding much, but I think it’s because I…[Read more]

I took on the mini challenge and created a new group titled “Neoliberal Fiction.” As with many of the campers, I initially struggled to find groups specifically tailored to my fields of interest, specifically neoliberalism and its connections with literature and culture. Part of my dissertation project has to do with tracing the emerging genre of…[Read more]

Hello, everyone!

I’ve just completed Challenge #2. I started following 5 people, mostly scholars in postcolonial ecocriticism, Global South lit and environmental humanities, and joined 2 new groups, Animal Studies and Lit and Economics. At first I had difficulty finding people with similar interests, perhaps because I was searching very specific…[Read more]

Hello! Click here for my updated profile! I’ve had one for some months, but I’ve updated the information on most sections – also, new profile pic!

A couple of things that came to my mind while working on the profile were: 1) is my current picture “appropriate” for an academic profile? 2) is there a preferred length for the “about” section? In…[Read more]

Hello! I’m Sara Santos and I’m a 3rd year PhD student – also in the English Department at Stony Brook. My work focuses on biopolitics, posthumanism and ecocriticism in contemporary literature. My dissertation will look at trajectories of becoming non/posthuman in neoliberal spaces of security – basically, I just want an excuse to write about…[Read more]