Joe

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About me

Industry Education
Occupation English Teacher
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Introduction In September 2009, I will begin a PhD program in English Literature at Johns Hopkins University. I am currently an English teacher for students with special learning needs. In 2008, I had a Fulbright ETA Fellowship to Malaysia. I received my B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Eckerd College in 2006.
Interests Travel, Books, Biking, Southeast Asia, Art and Art History, Modernism, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Evolution, Religion, Atheism, Anthropology
Favorite Movies Akira, Shoah, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Bright Future, Darwin's Nightmare, Roix et Reine, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Belleville Rendezvous, The Good Shepherd, Chinatown, Before Night Falls, No Country For Old Men, The Darjeeling Limited, Slumdog Millionaire
Favorite Music Neko Case, The Dirty Projectors, Sufjan Stevens, Smog, J.S. Bach, Dmitri Shostakovitch
Favorite Books One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Wasteland, The Four Quartets, Illuminations, Labyrinths, The God Delusion, King James Bible, To Kill a Mockingbird, Walden and Civil Disobedience, Heart of Darkness, Catch-22, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Paradise Lost, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, The Great War in Modern Memory, The Dream Songs, A Moveable Feast, 1984, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Leaves of Grass, The Stranger, The Trial, Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Heart of the Matter, Les Fleurs Du Mal, A Confederacy of Dunces, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tender is the Night, The Grapes of Wrath, Snow Crash, Neuromancer