Stephen Writes a Blog
I'm Stephen Stewart and I recently made friends with this Blue Morpho butterfly at a conservatory on a recent trip to Michigan's upper peninsula. Blue Morphos in the wild are exceedingly rare, though not so much rare at a conservatory. I'm approaching this blog in the same way - I'm not usually one for this sort of public communication (it's rare from me in the wild), but perhaps I can find some safety in doing this for class, to start (our conservatory). I'm a 5th year (or, maybe 3rd year, or maybe 10th year - depends on how you count) PhD student in Purdue's Curriculum Studies program. I've been in the Curriculum Studies program since Spring 2022, and transferred in from the Higher Education program which I began in Fall 2020. All of this, of course, was borne out of the stubbornness I developed after leaving a Media Psychology PhD program at IU in 2016. Okay, it's not all stubbornness, but as I'm diving into learning more about narrative i...