How to get started
- Talk with faculty members about your general interests. Use faculty as a resource to find out which topics are over-studied and where additional work is needed.
- If there are students with similar or overlapping interests, get their perspectives as well.
- Read a great deal, even in the early weeks of your graduate work. Be open to reading research outside your immediate areas of interests and seeing how they link to your own areas.
- Ask faculty for reading lists or copies of syllabi. Such resources help you familiarize yourself with the research already done in areas that interest you. Be sure to follow up on citations that are interesting or intriguing.
- Identify key authors relevant to your interests. Read their scholarship and understand the work that has informed their research.