I passed my Ph.D. comprehensive exams today -- basically a two-year process of reading and remembering 130 works of Renaissance poetry, prose, drama, and scholarship, culminating in a 5000-word written exam, and a two-hour oral exam, in which the four-person committee can ask me anything about anything on my list. It's the final hurdle before the dissertation, and I'm excited to finally return to my research on specific editions of poetry from the 1630s and 1640s. Despite a COVID-filled world, I'm a very happy man today!
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