Monday, January 15, 2007
(3:09 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Annoying to-do list
This is what you signed up for when you started reading a blog that is partly my personal MySpace.The semester at CTS starts early in February. I've already started two classes, and once CTS starts up, my schedule will look like this (at least until the quarter classes end mid-semester):
- "On Creaturely Life" with Eric Santner at University of Chicago
- "Derrida and the Question of Life" with Michael Naas at DePaul (auditing, but will probably still do a paper if allowed)
- "Judith Butler and Religious Studies" with Ken Stone at CTS
- TA: "Systematic Theology" with Dow Edgerton at CTS
While all this is going on, I'd like to try to finish up the 20th Century list and hopefully take the exam before the semester ends. I have fewer than 15 books to read, and apparently the semester is 15 weeks long, so hopefully that should be possible to achieve. I'd also like to finish up my medieval theology directed reading, but that seems like a fantasy -- more likely something I can finish up during the summer. (I can't remember exactly how this works, but it seems like there is a possibility that we can take our "methodology" exam separately from the main event, so I'd probably try to take that as soon as possible -- perhaps early in the fall.) That will leave me with 13 classes completed and one more to go, and unless something really grabs me at U of C or DePaul next year, I'm probably just going to do a directed reading on Deleuze at CTS in the Fall.
Then I could take the remainder of my exams early in 2008, achieving the prestigious degree of ABD at the tender age of 27.
So I guess I've just done a to-do list for the next calendar year and beyond, which strikes me as both normal and healthy. Other things that I'd like to do during this period would be to write a paper for the AAR next year, and maybe do a couple more reviews for RR&T (and perhaps also an article-length review on the two English-language secondary works on Nancy -- book review editors at journals, take note!).
Thank you for indulging me.
