Victory!

[labellementeuse]

An email exchange:

ME: Kia ora [Person I was hoping would be my Honours supervisor], I was hoping to enrol in the summer/first semester research essay paper, although I know it's very late [because summer school started today]! The topic I'd
like to engage on is looking at the motherly girl in young adult
fiction, particularly the classic English adventure stories (for
example, the respective Susans from Narnia and Ransome's "Swallows and
Amazons" series), and how these roles can be interrogated in more
modern stories that nevertheless retain a similar "feel" - I'm
thinking particularly of some of the young women in Diana Wynne Jones'
more recent novels (Arianrhod Hyde and Charmain Baker, if you happen
to be familiar with those books.) To get more to the point, I was
hoping that you would be willing to supervise me.

SAID PERSON: That sounds really interesting! I'd be keen to supervise a
dissertation/honours essay on this subject.


\o/ WHEW/YAY.

Comments

[aimeesworld.livejournal.com]

She's really adorable and incredibly enthusiastic. I know people who find her irritating but Katie and I adore her.
So, we're going to be in two classes together. I really need to decide on a fourth. I'm tempted to take "Sex and Gender in Greece and Rome" and pretend it's totally related to my English research essay. I don't know. I love your research essay idea. I have no idea even where to begin with mine.
Vic is really stuck in the past in a bulk of honours English, which is such a shame because there's so much variety in the undergrad courses.

[jo-nzl.livejournal.com]

Random comment from random person, but... you should totally take Mark's sex/gender paper! I know of at least one other person who is doing it along with honours papers in Old English (and possibly English lit as well, I'm not sure). He's super enthusiastic about the course, and the people enrolled are also pretty awesome. We're all having paroxysms of excitement, in short.