Hello Again!

[highlyeccentric]

Thursday Night is procrastination central around here ;). Hey, I had 3 and a bit hours of class and a counselling appointment today, I'm entitled to procrastinate.

Maybe there's not a question there. Here's one - could academic reflection on its own institutionalised scholarly practices of research and citation perhaps learn a lot more than it has yet from fan studies. Something about community hubs and tiers, about canon (and fanon), about flaming and wanks... I could go on. Maybe it still isn't a question.

Which is short for: Catherine Driscoll is awesome. I've been reading an old 'debate' between she and one Michael Hill on Henry Jenkins' Blog, about gender and fan culture, and it's very interesting, although Dr Hill's writing is mired in wank. Concepts: good. Method of expression is, and I borrow a phrase of his, a 'sense-making impossibility'.

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[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Thought you'd get a kick out of this: http://www.cracked.com/article_16554_5-most-baffling-sex-scenes-in-history-fanfiction.html

[strippedbare.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to decide why her name is familiar to me - because I've taken one of her classes in the past at Adelaide, or because I've heard her name around the history department here in Melbourne?!

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

She's at USyd, and is the head of Gender and Cultural Studies here, so probably the latter?

[strippedbare.livejournal.com]

I actually have a suspicion she used to work in Adelaide Uni's English department back when I was a first year. I just can't remember which topic she taught ... I'm pretty sure she taught a lecture on gothic literature in modern Australia or something like that??

[(Anonymous)]

yes i was at adelaide too and her name is also weirdly familiar - i think you're probably right. i don't think i took any of her courses but she probably team-taught on a couple of my subjects...
meli