{"id":6609,"date":"2020-05-25T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cale\/?post_type=stories&p=6609"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:10:29","slug":"english-student-spotlight-laine-houghton","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/english-student-spotlight-laine-houghton\/","title":{"rendered":"English Student Spotlight: Laine Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Spotlight:<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Laine Houghton
\n<\/span>MA in Literature and Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Self-illustration
Self-Illustration by Laine Houghton<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Laine Houghton is a graduate student in the Masters of Literature and Writing program.\u00a0 Laine will graduate in June 2020.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight?<\/b><\/p>\n

In the realm of school work, I\u2019m in the middle of my thesis: I\u2019m looking at how Faulkner\u2019s centering of the plantation house aesthetic in the gothic undermines his ideological critiques of white supremacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m applying to WSU\u2019s Doctoral program of American Studies and Culture this December. I\u2019ve begun slowly accumulating research on the kinship rituals of white supremacists, most notably their \u2018dog whistling\u2019 culture. But I\u2019ve recently become interested in the possible astroturfing going on in the quarantine protests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of school-however-I\u2019m working on my comic series <\/span>Olympys Weeping<\/span><\/i>, an action adventure sci-fi comic. If sci-fi Indiana Jones had a love child with super punk Fast and the Furious, it would be <\/span>Olympys Weeping<\/span><\/i>; or most accurately it would be my main characters Lania\u2019kea and Vulcan Sprig.<\/span><\/p>\n

How have your EWU experiences shaped you?<\/b><\/p>\n

I came to Eastern in the fall of 2013 right out of my senior year of high school, so EWU has been a site of monumental change for me — and that\u2019s not just talking about degree swaps. As much as we shape our surroundings, they also shape us. I wouldn\u2019t be the individual I was if it were not for the experiences I\u2019ve had on campus: EWU women’s rugby team, the protests, and the professors alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

What important lessons or tips do you have for future students?<\/b><\/p>\n

Start connecting with your classmates early — most likely you\u2019ll be in classes with them for a few years anyways and when you do finally talk to them, you\u2019ll kick yourself for not doing so earlier. They are experiencing the same things you are — lean into it!<\/span><\/p>\n

Other than that, just remember to play — remember that this is all a learning experience and part of that experience is growing pains. Play allows us to stretch, to laugh, to cry, so that we don\u2019t become overwhelmed by the state that is our sovereign minds and the world right now. Reaching out to your classmates can help with this too — because I can guarantee they need a laugh as much as you do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is there anything else you would like to share with readers?<\/b><\/p>\n

The moment we find ourselves in right now is not easy; no one should kid themselves that it is. The only way we pull through this difficult time stronger than we went into it, is if we support one another. I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be a member of an amazing cohort that truly supports each other as a family. We are not islands unto our own — we are an ecosystem: dependent on one another for our continued growth and beauty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student Spotlight: Laine Houghton MA in Literature and Writing Laine Houghton is a graduate student in the Masters of Literature and Writing program.\u00a0 Laine will graduate in June 2020. What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight? In the realm of school work, I\u2019m in the middle of my thesis: I\u2019m…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":6610,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-6609","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-english-philosophy","stories_tags-cale","stories_tags-english-student-spotlight","stories_tags-literature","stories_tags-students"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":true,"display_date_published":true,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15359,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/6609\/revisions\/15359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}