Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
Department
English
Committee Chair
Mary Ann Samyn
Committee Co-Chair
Christa Parravani
Committee Member
Christa Parravani
Committee Member
Mark Brazaitis
Abstract
The following thesis is a memoir excerpt, focusing on the narrator’s five-year search for a diagnosis when a mysterious seizure disorder plagues her adolescence and early adulthood. Beginning when the narrator is sixteen, the project explores the lasting effects of psychopathology on a developing identity and mind. The vignette form aims to curate fragments of experience that refract one another emotionally and thematically.
Recommended Citation
Virtue, Shannon Lindsay, "Psychogenic" (2024). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 12327.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/12327