I’m a graduate student and teacher in the English Department at CSUN. It’s my last year of graduate school. I plan on either starting a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition in Fall of 2012 or (hopefully) start teaching Full Time. As far as Rhetoric and Composition studies go I am interested in the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies (and it’s influence on the writing classroom) as well as the way students interact with technology. As for literature I’ve always loved 17th British Literature (predominately the tragedies of William Shakespeare) and the role in which evil is portrayed in literature.
JM Coetzee is a South African writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (for his novel Disgrace). Many of his novels discuss contemporary race, cultural or gender issues that are evident in society today. I’ve included below some of my favorite quotes from Coetzee’s novels that I’ve read so far..
“”No, Paul, I couldn’t care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.’ (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, in Slow Man).”
“It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.” – Disgrace
“I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.” – Dusklands
(L)Imitations of Freedom 