Also the PhD programs seem to have a requirement for your dissertations where you have "a chapter of at least 75 pages that locates the work in its literary and historical contexts" . Around that sort of thing.

Which is funny to me because it'd be fun to "bullshit" out making fantasy genre or fan fiction sound uber serious and scholarly.

Make it srs business.

Then again, my master's thesis one of my directors said that she never thought fantasy fiction could read like a serious novel. And it was horribly fan-fictiony at times.

So, there you go.

It's really just the idea of having to write something serious and scholarly about something that may contain Alec in all his Gary Stuness or Ceilidh and Princess Stabbity.

Like I could do it. But just... writing "princess stabbity" in a serious piece of work is an odd juxtaposition.