The UTC Graduate School is pleased to announce that Mary Fortune will present Master's research titled, Arguments With My Mother on 10/15/2025 at 11 a.m. in Lupton room 372. Everyone is invited to attend. 

English

Chair: Dr. Karen Babine

Abstract:

My thesis consists of a 10-page craft paper and a series of linked narratives forming a braided memoir. This multi-perspective memoir is based on a combination of my grandmother's written reminiscences, stories my mother has told me, my own experiences, and a draft of a personal memoir. My grandmother's experiences function as the foundation of the work; the additional braided elements explore the places where our experiences converge and diverge, address the question of what happened, and acknowledge that we might never reach agreement on that question, even where these experiences were shared. My title for this project, Arguments With My Mother, is a reference to many mothers (mine, and hers, and hers, as well). It refers to the arguments we have always had about our shared history, and points a bit more obliquely to an acknowledgement that our personal and familial stories may never be a settled matter.