Hawkes, Joel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7900-7640
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First Online: 20 July 2018
Endnotes
: Superscript removedThe student referred to asSin this paper was a student from a class some few years ago. She inspired the thinking in this paper, but I have taught many other students with similar mental health problems. For reasons of privacy and anonymity, I have removed identifying detail of this student and her work from my paper, while retaining enough to further critical discussion. No specifics of student, her illness or work are given; and at no point do I quote from her work. And interestingly, other students have been drawn to write on the more curious aspects of voices in Eliot’s poemThe Waste Land. The removal of identifying detail also reflects the idea of loss of identity experienced due to a narrative of mental illness on campus, which this essay explores. The student in the paper – though she does exist, and many others like her – can be read as an icon of sorts, not identifiable, in fact, because of the diagnosis.Superscript removedI have explored this image of Ophelia in the media with particular reference to the work of Joss Whedon. (See Whedon 2015, 243-50).