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English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-25 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Anyone else here a, an English Major, and b, feel like being one was kind of like being in fandom? I totally felt like we were a little fandom of a bunch of things at once. I've never told them that though, because I think they'd probably stare at me like I'm crazy.

Re: English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-25 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I think once you find your major it's all kind of like being in a fandom. I was an anthropology major and we had Malinowski fangirls, Mead fangirls, fights over different schools of thought, etc.

Re: English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-26 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
English major here, finishing her thesis. And yes, absolutely. My BFF is also an English major and when we get together to talk about anything, we usually end up squeeing about literature for hours. Just like fandom.

(Right now we're on a Byron binge since she's getting ready for her exams)

Re: English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-26 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
English major who took, and later TA'd, a class in fandom. There are similarities. I remember my one friend and I had shipwars over who was more adorable, Coleridge/Wordsworth or Kerouac/Ginsberg.

Re: English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-26 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Wordsworth ruined Coleridge. Total Yoko Factor. :p

Re: English Majors?

(Anonymous) 2013-05-26 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Graduated English Major here, and yeah, it is. I took a Shakespeare class where the professor came across as someone who had been in fandom for a very long time but still found plenty of stuff to squee about. In fact, a few of my professors came across as more restrained versions of that. So yeah, it's a fandom.
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