This is a Dissertation?!
This website first came to life as my English PhD dissertation.
Yes, seriously. Naturally, it came with many questions.
“Does a website count as a dissertation?”
“Why bother making it so public? Who cares about what you have to say?”
A dissertation is meant to be a “culmination of your academic endeavor.”
Your endeavor. Your story.
But I wanted to tell my story that also speaks to others.
Who cares about what I have to say?
Those whose life stories hum with mine.
So came this space. To reach out and share unfinished experiences and murmurs. Sometimes with words, in others with fragments of colors and sounds.
I hope this space serves you in a way that you need now, however small and fleeting.
I am grateful to the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University for their support of this project.