Welcome to academic antics! This is an academic blog that will take you, the reader, on what I hope to be a captivating journey of ideas I come across whilst carrying out my MA in Modernities at University College Cork.
My name is Marc Galdes, I am from Malta, and in 2023 I decided to pack up my life to continue my academic journey in Cork (that’s right, I willingly left sunny Malta for dreary cold Ireland). Although the move is still very fresh and I still feel like I’m in a state of shock, I can only speak highly about this MA and all the staff involved.
In 2022 I graduated from the University of Malta with a degree in BA English with Philosophy, with my proudest achievement being receiving an A in my dissertation titled Defamiliarising the Human: Nonhuman Narration in Three Postmodern Texts.
Throughout this blog, I hope to expand on my research interests which revolve around the Uncanny, Defamiliarisation and most recently Artificial Intelligence (however this is certain to change). Really and truly I am interested in anything which challenges the reader/audience/viewer to question what was previously taken for granted.
I will try my utmost to keep this blog entertaining and engaging for you whilst also creating something that will act as the foundation for my MA dissertation. Saħħa!