{"id":816,"date":"2025-10-16T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=816"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:48","slug":"henry-kendrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2025\/10\/16\/henry-kendrick\/","title":{"rendered":"#73: Afterlives of the American Frontier Myth with Henry Kendrick &#8217;24, English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/10\/Henry-Kendrick-square.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/10\/Henry-Kendrick-square.png 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/10\/Henry-Kendrick-square-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/10\/Henry-Kendrick-square-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, we hear from Henry, an English major whose thesis journey took a few unexpected turns: from exploring Pacific Northwest regionalism to diving deep into the world of literary naturalism. Henry unpacks how authors Jack London and Frank Norris challenged historian Frederick Jackson Turner\u2019s \u201cfrontier myth,\u201d reimagining the American frontier not as a vanished landscape but as an evolving cultural, economic, and imaginative force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in to hear about survival narratives, Social Darwinist ideas, and what happens when you have to scrap half your thesis to start again (spoiler: it\u2019s not fun, but it\u2019s worth it). Henry reflects on the highs and frustrations of the Reed thesis process, the art of negotiating with an advisor, and the unexpected joy of discovering how to make seemingly unrelated ideas work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read Henry\u2019s thesis, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/917eb624-f94d-453a-9638-4975c6123d5f\">Naturalist Afterlives of the Frontier Myth<\/a>\u201d online in the Electronic Thesis Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2192036123&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/henry-kendrick\" title=\"#73: Afterlives of the American Frontier Myth with Henry Kendrick &#x27;24, English\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">#73: Afterlives of the American Frontier Myth with Henry Kendrick &#x27;24, English<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we hear from Henry, an English major whose thesis journey took a few unexpected turns: from exploring Pacific Northwest regionalism to diving deep into the world of literary naturalism. 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