About Me

  • About Me: Girl meets grad school. Read all about it here. . .

Travel

  • Places I love: Arkansas, Italy, France
  • Places I've been: United States: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia; Europe: Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Vatican City

More About Me

  • Religion: Christian
  • Interests: words (writing, reading, editing, Italian, French, Scrabble); ideas (philosophy, Christianity); people (my family and friends, my students); sights (scrapbooking, photography, travel); sounds (playing violin and piano); chocolate; sunsets (and sunrises, if I'm awake); smiles and smileys!
  • Expertise: English Ph.D. student; tutor in the Writing Center
  • Occupation: Student
  • Industry: Education/Research

College

  • School Name: Harding University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2006
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): English, French
  • Minor(s): Bible

Books

  • Favorite Books: Sister Carrie, Wieland, One Hundred Years of Solitude, MLA Handbook, Chicago Manual of Style, AP Stylebook
  • Favorite Authors: Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne, John Milton, T.S. Eliot
  • Favorite Genres: nineteenth- and twentieth-century lit, especially poetry