tmevans
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Graduate Assistant |
| Location | Muncie, Indiana, United States |
| Introduction | I have a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Ball State University, where I also teach first-year rhetoric and writing. |
| Interests | Family, friends, colleagues, students, reading, writing, rhetoric, composition, teaching, travel, new media, trends in everything, humor, art, music, getting outside, health and physical fitness, martial arts,healthy food, sleep, whatever else I'm not thinking of right now. |
| Favorite movies | Citizen Kane, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Rear Window, Wayne's World, Caddy Shack, Young Frankenstein, Life of Brian, The Holy Grail, Repo Man, Fantastic Planet, American Beauty, Amadeus, Rock and Roll High School, Saving Silverman, Spinal Tap, Best of Show, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Deer Hunter, It's a Mad Mad World, Some Like it Hot, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Mary Poppins, The Great Santini, The Natural, Like Water for Chocolate, Little Miss Sunshine, and all sorts of other films that I can't think of right now--mostly what makes me laugh or makes me think--if a film does both, it's a real hit with me. |
| Favorite music | Seventies music in general, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Elton John, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Cure, Weezer, Nirvana, Neil Young, George Thorogood, Elvis Costello, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Cars, Eagles, The Doors, Blondie, B52's, Aerosmith, Iggy Pop, The Clash, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Petty, Jethro Tull, Pretenders, DEVO, Black Sabbath, Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynrd, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and so on, and more I can't think of right now |
| Favorite books | Anything by Jane Austen, War & Peace, Les Miserables, ...And the Ladies of the Club, A Passage to India, Howard's End, Life of Pi, In the Lake of the Woods, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Losing Julia, Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Women of the Silk, The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Middlemarch, The Great Gatsby, A Separate Peace, Now I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All of Gloria Naylor's books, The Joyluck Club, Little Women, The Bell Jar, The World According to Garp, Madame Bovary, A Farewell to Arms, Ordinary People, Vanity Fair, Robinson Crusoe, In Praise of Folly, My Antonia, The Angle of Repose, The Awakening, The House of Mirth, Sister Carrie, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Rabeleis' World, The Rhetorical Tradition, The History and Development of Advertising, The Shocking History of Advertising, Robinson Crusoe, others I can't think of right now |