PhD – Hannah Voss

falling through the air holding hands

or: precarity and a dream for academia

Writing, Depression, and Situational Worth

A few days ago I read a Rayne Fisher-Quann essay and fell into a kind of depression. Not because the content was depressing (though it was), but because it expressed something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I felt scooped, and frustrated that I had let thoughts sit in my brain without writingContinue reading “Writing, Depression, and Situational Worth”

This is Your PhD on Lockdown

It is January 5th, 2021. Yesterday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announced the third national lockdown the country has undertaken to attempt to curb the spread of a deadly, highly contagious virus. Yesterday was also, technically, the first day of my PhD.