Textual Healing and the Art of Placing Ideas (thesising)
Image from my thesis (2025) Dear Void and all who sail in her, It’s been two years since I last wrote to you (in this form), and as of this year I am now a Doctor of Arts. I teach Creative Writing and Theory and help tertiary students to think about real-world writing practices. This blog began as a reflective research journal back in 2022 when I was half way through my doctorate. I introduced myself and my project with a tentative first post . This became a space to test the slow unfolding of my research practice. I was testing out my thinking in a social space. The next day, I wrote a little about engaging with the materiality and affect of the eighteenth-century commonplace book (RB.Ms.Add 35, Fisher Library) and reflected on my research process and practice. I hoped my intellectual curiosity was sincere! I’m sure I’m not the first to use the sexy, soulful pun 'textual healing' to describe the pleasures of reading and writing. Or the intellectual and emotional restoration ...
