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....
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 2, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted from my 2020 Reading Methods essay on Frank O’Hara’s “Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!].” A separate post from the same project develops my model of description, interpretation, explanation, and evaluation; this one isolates the argument about literary...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 2, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted and substantially shortened from my essay “Medical Surveillance and the Boundaries of the Patient Body,” written for The Medical Imaginary.A diagnosis does more than name what is happening to a body. It can also change the terms through which a person...
by Laura Elizabeth Hand | Oct 2, 2026 | Research & Writing
Adapted and substantially shortened from my conference paper “Proximity Space, Gender, and Apparition in L’Éducation Sentimentale,” prepared for the Cornell EGSO 2020 Conference: Proximity.Flaubert gives Madame Arnoux’s famous entrance in L’Éducation sentimentale five...
