I’ve recently been researching and attempting to visualize my field. I’ll share a little background about my program and then the first part of what this visualization process looks like.

My Ph.D. Program–Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media–is an interdisciplinary program between the Communication and English departments at North Carolina State University. One of the final courses that we take, before moving on to comprehensive exams and the dissertation process, is aimed at helping us develop a sense of the field in which we’ll be working. This process has taught me that it’s particularly important to do this for those of us who will be working in an interdisciplinary field.