The Shaking Woman, by Siri Husvedt is a very interesting read. It is classified as a memoir and it does have those elements in it, so I can see why. But I have to agree with one of my classmates,…

Transitioning from Hustvedt’s narration into Jamison’s allows for a lens of comparison  that I otherwise might not have noted. Jamison eloquently phrases what I  struggled with in Hustvedt’s narrative. I struggled with relating to Hustvedt’s story as a personal narrative because…

in class today we went over the many different ways writers decide to prove their argument. In the shaking woman I found that the author uses leapfrogging. On page 116, she sort of agrees with Crick’s “truth”, but she says ”…

Hi everybody. You submitted some great questions today–and I’m sure many of them are on other people’s minds, so I’ll answer them here. Q: Can aspects of the material we’ve been introduced so far be used in our research projects?…

Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman or A History of Nerves takes us into her experiences of having seizures. The first episode occurred while she giving a speech at her father’s memorial in 2006. The author states that she was able…

Your proposal will be composed of three paragraphs, written in response to the prompts below. First paragraph: Name and describe your primary sources—a text or set of related texts that will be your central focus—and explain two to four research…

This is the Fuseli painting I mentioned in class–famously understood as a portrayal of sleep paralysis.

Chapter 10 of NeuroTribes took the readers in the world of the autistic mind through Temple Grandin. It was interesting to have that sort of insight because it was never something that seemed possible. Temple Grandin’s appearances at these functions…

In our recent readings and discussions of the many cases of Neurodiverse people, we have not yet seen a case such as this one. When we read about the different cases in Sack’s book, none of those patients were aware they…

If you’re curious about what I’ll be doing in Amsterdam, you can check out the program for the Worlding the Brain conference. You can also read abstracts for the various presentations and performances that will take place at the conference–by…