Women's History Month: Dianne de Bellis

Dianne De Bellis went back to study as a (very) mature student. Her PhD at UniSA is on finding, constructing and using stories of Australian soldiers in World War 1 who were sentenced to death for desertion. These contribute to revisionist Australian history and are used to interrogate the myth of Anzac as a foundation of the Australian identity.

Musings on the (non)-progress of a PhD

It does not matter whether the world is conceived to be real or only imagined; the manner of making sense of it is the same (Hayden White, 1978).

( For a section from Dianne's PhD journal, click here. Warning: it includes mentions of Igor. )

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I read my two books yesterday and drafted my three articles. Those articles are now gone and my teaching preparation is done and I think I have deserved a break. It can't be too long a break, because I still have a bunch of things to do before Friday, but at least I'm a bit caught up with both review books and BiblioBuffet. If I can get my administratrivia done before I leave for teaching, then I get to work on my PhD ALL EVENING.

To celebrate time out in a busy week, I did a meme (which I snurched from queenoftheskies:

You were born during a Waxing Gibbous moon

- what it says about you -


You love to let people in on the story of how things come together. You know the background of ideas and have a deep understanding of things others just touch the surface of. You can surprise people with your wide variety of knowledge, and they'll remember and appreciate you for it.

What phase was the moon at on your birthday? Find out at Spacefem.com