Comments on: More Grad School Words

By: Vicki

Vicki — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:53:49 +0000

To follow up, my discipline is English studies/contemporary lit, but I also do work in Women’s Studies & Gender Studies, as the department calls itself here. Basically I just wanted in on the fun and those were the first ones that came to mind that you hadn’t already said. :)

Did anybody say “discourse” yet, btw?

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:38:21 +0000

THESE ARE ALL SO GOOD YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!

“captain tautology and his sidekick, His Sidekick” made me LOL kind of to an inappropriate degree

By: Sarah Meadows

Sarah Meadows — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:35:07 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAH, the archive!!!

By: NV

NV — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:28:21 +0000

My favorite is “the archive” — why is there only one, singular archive when they make everything else plural??

By: Sarah Meadows

Sarah Meadows — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:19:59 +0000

ugh, UNPACK!!!
I really don’t want to hear anyone unpack anything, ever again.
“Let’s unpack that, shall we?”

Art School Words:
Liminal
Reflexive
Pedagogy
Materiality
Walter Benjamin
Simulacra
Appropriation
Temporal
Ethnography

oh man, if I weren’t so sleepy I could come up with some really good ones!

“picasso”

By: eileen

eileen — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:59:34 +0000

I have to mention that we have a joke at home about Captain Tautology and his sidekick, His Sidekick.

(DORKS)

By: yelena

yelena — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:40:38 +0000

Intervention. A douchy prof in my seminar totally ripped into a poor grad student for using it, because he personally thought it was highfalutin and overused. Well guess what: interrupting a student when she is presenting her work to her colleagues and the “scholarly community” is not cool. I actually like this word, even if it is a bit overused.

Also: dialectic, practice (as opposed to praxis, often with an adjective – artistic practice, the practice of performance, etc.), ideology