some of my fields of research are: how affective states (specifically trauma, grief, and sadness) effect our experience of time; how such experiences of time inform memory; the structure of memory; the “unreliability” (and politicization) of emotion; how the body remembers and at times refuses to forget
i can’t stop thinking about the first. as some of you know, i started to write about time travel last year, particularly as it relates to traumatic memory. but i think it happens on a smaller scale, too, just when we are in less extensive states of sadness. i’m fascinated by my own sadness, and the paralysis that it can cause. my body seems wholly uncooperative when i’m anything less than exuberant. i find myself almost hallucinating at times to particularly stressful moments during the recent past. i wonder if other people realize that i exist in two worlds.
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