Mike Perkovich
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | English Teacher |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | I am an occasionally employed English teacher whose specialty is American Literature. My book, "Nature Boys: Camp Discourse in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton," available through Peter Lang publishers, deals with the emergence of the phenomenon of camp as coincident with the emergence of the new figure, the "homosexual," who rose from the ashes of the Sodomite as much more glorious figure. |
| Interests | Literature--American, International Modernism, Middle English, Renaissance, Poetry |
| Favorite movies | 8&1/2--and any Fellini, Night on Earth,all Marx Brothers films,Nashville,The Girl Can't Help It,Midnight Cowboy, Casablanca,French New Wave |
| Favorite music | Django Reinhardt, Bix Biederbecke,Cream,Gogol Bordello,Miles Davis, Coltrane, Astor Piazzolla,Mozart,Rossini, Jobim (this could go on forever. |
| Favorite books | Tom Jones,all of Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Chaucer, Shakespeare,Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, Wallace Stevens...This could go on... |