About

Dissertation Haiku is the creation of Drew Steen.  I recently finished my Ph.D. in Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I’m now doing postdoctoral work in the Biology Department (microbiology section) and the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University in Denmark.  I’m currently in my eighth year of being paid to study how stuff rots in the ocean.  Contact me at dissertationhaiku@gmail.com.

Responses

  1. Your site was forwarded to me by Leah Pressman. Congrats on a brilliant idea and on a brilliant execution of a brilliant idea! I write a Politiku (political haiku) column for the Huffington Post. Here is the url if you’d like to check it out:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susanna-speier Perhaps we can collaborate on something at some point.

    By: Susanna Speier on August 20, 2009
    at 5:24 am

  2. Hey, what a fantastic idea – do you also take haiku on Masters Theses??? I wrote one on experimental film and haiku, so I would love to contribute a haiku to your site.

    Anyway – stunning idea.

    All the best,
    Dick Whyte

    By: Dick Whyte on September 1, 2009
    at 1:17 am

  3. I learned about your idea and this site from a brief report in “Haaretz” (our local version of the NYT) and think it’s terrific. But it could use much wider application – not only for dissertations. I’m on the Editorial Boards of several academic journals, and believe that requiring every abstract to be summarized in a haiku would contribute a lot to the quality of scientific/ academic discourse – not only to comprehensibility, but even more to the articles’ substantive content. I plan to fly this idea in the near future in one of these journals.

    By: Ernest Alexander on October 24, 2009
    at 8:27 am