Hi peoples,
This may be unorthodox but I am really badly needing a second examiner
for a students honour's thesis.
The this is called "Antediluvian Visions: Civilization and Barbarism in
the worlds of Robert E Howard and H.P Lovecraft". Essentially the
thesis looks at the configuration of race, civilization and progress etc
in the author's works, compares and contrasts them and links them into
the colonial discourse of turn of pre war US. There is a big focus on
the influence of discourses regarding US indigines and immigration as
manifested in pulp fiction of the period. gets into the influence of
Frazer etc on representations of magic and civilization as well etc
Anyway all the people I've chased up are busy, on leave, not into Robert
E Howard, not confident with the historical side etc and I am getting
rather desperate for a second examiner for it.
In anycase, if any of you would be up to mark this, have completed a
post-grad degree (or just about to) and feel confident with the subject
matter could you please contact me. I would rather a local Australian
based academic (re: logistics of sending overseas for an honours) but i
am really not fussed at this point.
I could mark it myself but the student is also a close friend of mine
outside of class and I would rather he have a more distanced objective
marker. Anyway I am running out of time for it, especially with this
students hopes to apply for a PhD next year, so any people willing (or
even if you can suggest another name to chase up) would be most welcome.
Thanks heaps
David
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