by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 15, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted from my 2018 research on hands, embodiment, correspondence, and elegiac consolation in Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam. Elegy is preoccupied with a basic physical problem: the person being addressed is no longer available to be touched, answered, or held. In In...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 15, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted from my 2019 research on ambiguity, prosody, punctuation, and temptation in John Milton’s Paradise Regained. Temptation is not simply a choice between two settled alternatives. It is the interval in which several possibilities remain active at once: desire and...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 6, 2026 | Research & Writing
This essay revisits a 2017 Spanish-language research paper on translation, information distribution, and colonial textual authority. I have recast the argument for a public-facing audience rather than translating the original paper line by line. Translation is often...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 3, 2026 | Research & Writing
Many interview guides treat preparation as performance: memorize the right answers, control every gesture, wear the approved clothes, avoid the wrong questions. I have accumulated and used versions of that advice in career-development work, and returning to older...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 2, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted and substantially shortened from my 2018 process analysis, “Peer Collaboration in the Editing Process.”I learned one of my most useful lessons about writing from pure mathematics.As an applied mathematics student, I initially found pure math counterintuitive....
