About my beautiful mum.

“One of the opportunities cancer provides is the chance to take stock of your life and ask yourself the big questions about what you’re doing and where you’re going. At the same time; it can help you cherish the good moments, to tell the people you love that you love them, and to appreciate the gift of the tiniest, most elemental sensations”

Imagining new approaches to the humanities.

Reading response to The Sorrows of Young Werther

An Essay on Self-Knowledge and the Appetite

(An Unaccountable Account)

Letter to Yale’s 2012 incoming class

(Photo credit Jon Tyson)

Historiography in Virginia Woolf’s Between The Acts

At the end of my sophomore year, I became convinced that the only way I was going to salvage the social, academic, and extracurricular wreck I’d made of my life at university was to go to England’s Lake District and read Wordsworth’s epic, The Prelude, in its original setting.