| They say you can do anything with an English major, but I think they're exaggerating. But I can have intense book discussions, judge people on their vocabularly alone, and write a mean paper. |
| English Lit. |
| Classes and Papers Intro to the Literary Method (A-) Prof. Quinney James Merrill - "body" (A-) Wallace Stevens - "Waving Adieu" (A-) Modern Poetry (A) Prof. Morrison T S Eliot - "The Lovesong of Alred J. Prufrock" (B+) Wallace Stevens - "Sunday Morning" (A) Paranoia in Contempory Fiction (B+) Prof. Bottorf Thomas Pynchon - "The Crying of Lot 49" (B) Maragret Atwood - "The Handmaid's Tale" (A-) 21st Century Contemporary Fiction Prof. Irr John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets Prof. Targoff Romantic Lives University of Nottingham English Fiction in South Africa University of Nottingham |
| these are a lot of my favorite books... Kurt Vonnegu - Cat's Cradle - Breakfast of Champions Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son JD Salinger - 9 Stories David Foster - Brief Interviews With Wallace Hideous Men Syvlia Plath - The Bell Jar Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good & Evil George Orwell - 1984 Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being Douglas Adams - The "Hitchhiker" Trilogy Phillip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Tom Wolfe - Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex |
| (I also study creative writing and philsophy) |