Papers by Christine Maksimowicz
The goal of this dissertation was to examine the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in muscle... more The goal of this dissertation was to examine the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in muscle soreness. Study 1 examined how the disruption of the ECM from a minor surgery (e.g. muscle biopsy) affected muscle soreness. Study 1 showed that soreness levels increased at 24 h post-biopsy compared to baseline and resolved within 96 h. However, the level of muscle soreness at 24 h post-biopsy (20 mm) was lower than that reported for performing a strenuous and naïve exercise (40–80 mm). These results will help review boards at institutions where muscle biopsies are performed understand how a muscle biopsy affects individuals. Additionally, these results will help investigators better articulate the effects of a muscle biopsy to a study volunteer. Study 2 examined the molecular changes of ECM molecules in response to a single and repeated bout of exercise. Muscle biopsies were analyzed from baseline, 24 h post-Bout 1, and 24 h post-Bout 2 using qRT-PCR, western blotting, and zymography ...
The Works of Elena Ferrante, 2016
In a recent conversation among Elena Ferrante's translator Ann Goldstein, New Yorker literary edi... more In a recent conversation among Elena Ferrante's translator Ann Goldstein, New Yorker literary editor Sasha Weiss, and staff writer D.T. Max, the three puzzle over what it is that makes Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels hard to talk about, an issue that may shed light on why so little has been written about Ferrante's work. While eager to recommend Ferrante to friends, Weiss relays how language fails her when trying to describe Ferrante's novels. Max connects the inexpressible quality of the bildungsroman to the difficult to understand friendship between protagonists Elena and Lila: "I can't think of a counterpart in British or American letters. It's so ornery, it's so fraught, it's so rich. It's full of ironies, confusions, back-trackings, moments where you think you get it and then you don't." Yet while the Neapolitan Novels center upon this friendship, I wonder if the novels' ineffable nature is not to be found in the friendship itself, but rather in what lies beneath its surface. By this I mean to consider how the relationship expresses a troubled earlier one between mother and daughter, a relationship that Ferrante, both explicitly and in her prior novels, has revealed to be of great interest to her.
Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 2014
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Papers by Christine Maksimowicz