theory research pedagogy
During the last few semesters of my undergraduate work, I decided to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" through a Freudian lens. From there, theory started to seep into everything I read, leading to my decision to attend graduate school and pursue a degree in literature.
In my first week of graduate school, I set up a meeting with Dr. Rylish Moeller, hoping to drop my Shakespeare course and transfer into his rhetoric and theory driven class. Earlier I had seen a copy of his syllabus and found myself "drooling" over the reading list.
In his class I learned that theory could be applied to more than just literature. It applies to popular culture, religion, and pedagogy. It was then that I fell in love with rhetoric.
During the last few semesters of my undergraduate work, I decided to read Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" through a Freudian lens. From there, theory started to seep into everything I read, leading to my decision to attend graduate school and pursue a degree in literature.
In my first week of graduate school, I set up a meeting with Dr. Rylish Moeller, hoping to drop my Shakespeare course and transfer into his rhetoric and theory driven class. Earlier I had seen a copy of his syllabus and found myself "drooling" over the reading list.
In his class I learned that theory could be applied to more than just literature. It applies to popular culture, religion, and pedagogy. It was then that I fell in love with rhetoric.