Therese

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Gender Female
Occupation Student
Location Maine
Introduction I'm graduate of the University of Dallas with a B.A. in French and English. I'll be beginning my studies of Belgian Symbolism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles on a Fulbright scholarship this September. Grad school with an academic career as the goal used to be my life plan, but extensive reading of literary criticism and conversations with professors has assured me that the teaching of English 101 and the later tenure grab is not for me. What'll happen next? Who knows.
Interests Libraries, Russian literature, Foreign languages, T.S. Eliot, Wooster and Jeeves, Writing, poetry, Chopin, the use of humor in literature, irony as a method of achieving understanding, French literature and its impact upon the English literary tradition
Favorite Movies Fiddler on the Roof, Joyeaux Noel, Babette's Feast, Lord of the Rings, Cold Comfort Farm, Jean de Florette, Les Choristes
Favorite Music Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Mahler, Palestrina, George Winston, Bach, Edward Elgar, Journey, Boston, Ella Fitzgerald, Mumford and Sons
Favorite Books Lord of the Rings, Orthodoxy, Till We Have Faces, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Bleak House, Sense and Sensibility, Tevye the Milkman, The Enchanted Castle, Alice in Wonderland, Midnight's Children, To the Lighthouse