Karissa
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Poet/Teacher/Editor/Nanny |
| Location | Iowa, United States |
| Introduction | I just graduated with a BA in English after writing an undergraduate thesis about depictions of work and labor in utopian fiction, and this fall, I'll be attending the MFA program in Creative Writing - Poetry at BGSU. |
| Interests | Poetry, Marxism, Early Modern Literature, Cooking, College Football, Utopian Studies, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, Detournement, Philosophy, Art, Existentialism, Hedonism, Nihilism, Documentaries, Poker, Shuffleboard, Cognitive Science, Conspiracy Theories, Live Music, Punk Rock, Wine |
| Favorite Movies | Loving Annabelle, The Constant Gardener, A Single Man, Sylvia, Lolita, A Short Film About Love, The Silence of the Lambs, Secretary, Elegy, Savages, American Beauty, Herb and Dorothy, Crashing, Cracks, Badlands, Pretty Persuasion, Dangerous Minds |
| Favorite Music | Chromeo, The Mountain Goats, The Smiths, She Wants Revenge, Man Man, The Hold Steady, Bauhaus, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The National, Pedro the Lion, Northern State, Gang of Four, Ted Leo, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Dirty Projectors, Frightened Rabbit, The Pixies, Interpol, The Buzzcocks, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Bouncing Souls, Lykke Li, The Velvet Underground, Pulp, Peter Bjorn & John, Joy Division, T.S.O.L., The Rentals, Phillip Glass, The Cure, Rilo Kiley, Marina & the Diamonds, Metric, Sleater-Kinney |
| Favorite Books | Utopia, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Lolita, Robinson Crusoe, Ariel, The Great Gatsby, Oroonoko, Foe, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, Red Mars, Crime and Punishment, Blue Angel, Fredric Jameson, Karl Marx, Soren Kierkegaard, Montaigne, Homi Bhabha, Raymond Williams, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bill McKibben, David Harvey, John Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Ashley Capps, Louise Gluck, Sylvia Plath, Jorie Graham, Traci Brimhall, Phillip Schultz, David Trinidad, Marianne Moore, Karyna McGlynn, Dan Beachy-Quick, Anne Carson, Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare |