On Actually Enjoyable Academics

So our revels now are ended.  I have checked off each book on my titanic reading lists.  I have submitted my portfolio to my committee.  In less than 2 weeks, I defend my comps portfolio.  There is naught left but to prepare for battle.

Of those reading lists: roughly 50 of those books, or about a third altogether, were critical texts, works of scholarship written over the past century upon the works of Modernism and Postmodernism.  My attraction to these art movements...