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Failing Loudly

galumphing through a career in academia

Category: emotional life in academia

Written by VictoriaJune 24, 2018June 24, 2018

in which Count Fosco shouldn’t count, or, grieving in graduate school

My mom died unexpectedly in 2006, when I was in graduate school. I’d just finished up my second year as a PhD student at Rice, and I’d submitted my seminar papers: one on Rochester and syphilis and another on deferral and serialization in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White. I was a TA for a section of […]

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