Into the Deep will be featuring brief profiles
of faculty members in which they answer five questions about their own grad
school experiences.
A recently tenured associate professor,
Jennifer Lokash has been with Memorial’s English Department since Fall 2004. Jennifer’s specialty is British romantic literature, with a special emphasis on medicine,
literature and the environment, and the gothic’s challenge to traditionalist
conceptions of humanism and rationality.
Jennifer did her graduate work at McGill University in Montreal.
She will next be teaching a graduate
course in the winter term of 2013 with “Posthumanism and the Gothic: Animals,
Monsters and Machines.”
1. What was your best grad school experience?
Defending my dissertation.
2. What was your worst grad school experience?
Defending my dissertation.
3. What was the place outside your
home/apartment where you spent the most time?
Putting my advanced procrastination skills to
good use, I spent a lot of time at the movie theatre, the yoga studio, and the
cafe around the corner from my apartment. But I probably logged more hours
at Thomson House (McGill's grad society building/bar), than anywhere else
in Montreal.
4. What text/book did you do in grad school
that you never, ever want to encounter again?
It was during undergrad rather than grad
school, but there's a clear double winner: Roland Barthes's S/Z and
Henry James's story "The Liar." For an assignment in my Honours
Literary Criticism course, we had to use the structuralist method of the former
to do a reading of the latter. I went insane and wrote 60 pages. I think the
assignment was worth about 10% of my final grade.
5. What was your grad school comfort food?
I ate a fair amount of raw cookie dough,
frequently with a red wine or whisky chaser.
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