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I don't know how many times I have rewatched this video, especially whenever I am tempted to rush into setting big goals of writing or reading a lot. This idea of having a draft as a companion, of having something simmering on a stove whilst chipping away on a big project, is just comforting and healing and validates all my beliefs that the best work comes from giving yourself and your thoughts time to ruminate.

My grandmother gave me her personal copy of Jane Eyre shortly before she died. She said it was her favorite novel. But I never had the opportunity to really discuss it in depth with her before she passed. Based on the pieces of her life that I know from what family members have told me, I can make guesses about what she liked so much about Jane. It’s nice to hear about what others enjoy and take from the book. Thank you for the great video!

Please please please make more videos like this

Congrats! What an accomplishment. I'm headed down the same path myself.

How’d you go about printing your dissertation?

i love this SO much its so thought provoking

Thank you for this conversation!! Did you have to take the GRE for your program? It seems like there are so many humanities programs that don't require it, I'm not sure whether to look into taking it

Learning the history behind the making of classic books makes me enjoy them even more.

so, so appreciated❤

I never do not nor even want to attempt a PhD. It goes on for too many years and the thesis is too focused. I had enough difficulty with the Master's degree where I struggled with writing my essays, EMA, and dissertation because the questions were rather complicated, vague, complex, and daunting. I felt like dropping out of my Master's degree, but I pulled through and I completed it and graduated with it. The Master's degree is one of the most difficult which I ever down in my school life. I did not receive a high mark at all in the two years that I did my Master's degree. I was just lucky just to pass.

sending this video to all my weirdo friends because its awesome. your hair is gorgeous by the way

Clicking on this video might have been the best decision I made today! I loved it, and watched it while eating bread and milk lol, but it is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much for sharing all of this with us.

Titus Andronicus changed my brain chemistry as a teenager lmao

i feel like you would love hannibal nbc

this was intellectual epiphany

Thank you so much for this video! I’m a humanities junior and I’ve been seriously considering going to grad school. Such a helpful conversation this was. Thank you!❤

Talking about cannibalism is absolutely iconic! ☆ Everything you said is very well put, too. Smacking that subscribe button asap!

loved this video

Thank you for this video! I’m just a semester in to my first year of college and don’t have that many examples of what pursuing an English degree could look like. Are there any things you would tell your undergraduate self or things you would’ve done differently knowing what you do now?

"I don't like business, I like books!" Story of my life 😂 Thank you both so much for this discussion - your perspectives were great to listen to.

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This was a fabulous conversation!. A MA in English Literature can be of great value outside of academia. . I believe that one should pursue many career paths, because, as was said, life is both long and short.

Loved this convo so much, thank you for sharing!! Just starting my Masters part time for the pursuit of academia and am looking ahead one day to possibly pursuing a PhD, this is so helpful and interesting

I am very glad none of Aphra Behn's plays showed up in this video.

Would you mind saying why you think the other universities rejected your application?

Is dropping out for free masters unethical ?

this is SO good, now i kind of want a degree in english

currently writing on blood in chinese literature and the concept of consuming human blood as a ritualistic and medicinal element is startingly common, for example in Medicine by Lu Xun. I'm focusing on blood-selling, and how it is ultimately a power imbalance between the person selling themselves and their "legacy/vitality" and who draws and buys it, who actually ends up controlling and owning the seller while putting them onto the illusion they are empowering themselves through an easy way of earning money (reference: the blood of china by Pierre Haski, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua)

hello fellow medievalists/early modernists!! i’m so glad i came across this vid, i’m currently finishing up an MA in medieval studies with plans for a loooong break before going back for a phd (if i ever go back at all) and have been feeling a lot of guilt about it. so thank you both for making this video and providing some much needed perspective <3

I could watch a thousand videos like this; absolutely fascinating examples, well-researched, well-analyzed, perfectly succinct and poignant especially to today’s views of capitalism and colonialism. Genius

I will believe that this is what Eat Your Young by Hozier is about

THANKS FOR THIS! ❤

Thank you so much for this video. I am also a recipient of a Fellowship for a set course of study but I dropped this study to switch into a different program at my university because I realized that the doors that my previous program would have opened for me were not the doors that I wanted. Though I am happy to have switched to my new program, I do feel this intense fear that maybe I am a failure for switching to a "passion" program, that maybe I am just not intelligent enough to pursue a more academically/intellctually rigorous program. Hearing you both discuss grad school as a "career change" rather than as a reflection of one's intellectual/motivational spirit is so helpful in easing my anxieties. It is okay to change careers and paths--especially since I am in my early twenties! Thank you once again for this insightful conversation. <3

This is seriously such an important video; I'm not even being dramatic. Being in the last semester of my MA program, I cannot tell you how much I WISH I had listened to such a conversation years ago when I started it all. and even today, it means so much to hear two brilliant people reminding us not to be afraid to dream again, to start over, and to quit if things do not turn out as we might've imagined. Our lives and choices ultimately belong to the "us" we are today, not necessarily to the "us" who made them several years ago. + the world and its opportunities are too vast for us to reduce it all to just a couple of options. so really, thank you for this video <3

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Thanks for the video. May I ask your advices for MA Literature students on deciding their thesis topic? I'm struggling to pick a work and period and find an approach.

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!

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We're one step closer to the Cannibalism in Victorian Hookers trilogy (Ok I'll shut up now and actually deeply appreciate this interesting video)

Heyy, I just marathoned all the videos on your channel and I'm loving it. I'm Brazilian, kisses!

going through all your vlogs to find motivation for my final push of my dissertation

YES! please make more videos like this! theyre so needed, its like a public lecture!

As someone who is preparing to apply to a phd program in the humanities and social sciences, this was super helpful. Thank you for being so thorough and sharing your journey

Well this is actually a good video

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience and work. You inspire me so much!!

amazing vid! i'm brazilian and the cannibalism - sex parallel made me think about how in Brazil sometimes when a man wants to call a woman "hot", "sexy" (or just say she has a nice body) they say she is "filé" which translates to "steak", "fillet", literally a piece of meat

You should check out Richard the Lionhearted (c. 1400s)! Richard I is an unabashed cannibal in it, and the son of a demon.

so, so, soooooo jealous omg!

i literally just met you and omg, i wanna be you you're an amazing person i hope i can be as good as you someday... love from Brazil :)

Thank you for this brief overview. I will use the info to ponder Catholicism / the act of eating the body of Christ .