The Write In: Grad Student Narratives
The Write In: Grad Student Narratives
Podcast Description
Welcome to The Write In: Grad Student Narratives, a podcast featuring the stories of Yale PhD students who take us on their journey and offer strategies for writing—and being—in graduate school. I am your host, Dr. Julia Istomina, and I get to work (and chat) with Yale grad students in my role as the Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab at The Poorvu Center. Each episode features a specific theme or question based on the conversation and story of our guest. Guests include Grad Writing Lab Fellows who are either in the later stages of their PhD Program or have just earned their degree. The scope of each conversation steers toward reflecting on their overall time spent at Yale while focusing a lens on the ways they managed a particular challenge or opportunity in their process.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as personal growth in graduate school, navigating challenges, and building a writing process. Episodes delve into topics like finding value in academic-adjacent roles, leveraging interdisciplinary skills in environmental studies, and designing writing practices that promote student wellness, with examples including Dana Hayward's pivot in her dissertation project and Chihiro Larissa's holistic approach to writing.
Welcome to The Write In: Grad Student Narratives, a podcast featuring the stories of Yale PhD students who take us on their journey and offer strategies for writing—and being—in graduate school. I am your host, Dr. Julia Istomina, and I get to work (and chat) with Yale grad students in my role as the Associate Director of the Graduate Writing Lab at The Poorvu Center. Each episode features a specific theme or question based on the conversation and story of our guest. Guests include Grad Writing Lab Fellows who are either in the later stages of their PhD Program or have just earned their degree. The scope of each conversation steers toward reflecting on their overall time spent at Yale while focusing a lens on the ways they managed a particular challenge or opportunity in their process.
You’ve embarked on an Ivy Plus Exchange program to do archival research in Portland, Oregon in your fifth year as a Sociology PhD Candidate. Covid hits, the archives close, what are you going to do? In this episode, we hear Dana’s story about finding a place within university life after more than a decade of trials, tribulations, and ultimately, successes with her “pivoted” dissertation project. We learn that time wasn’t wasted time, but instead a pause that allowed Dana to reflect on what about universities she loved and wanted to keep, and what she wanted to let go. If you’re curious about what I like to call “academic-adjacent” roles within the university, or roles that directly connect to and work with university scholars and teachers, this episode is for you.
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