Daniela Schirmer
entered graduate program: fall '12
degree(s) & major: B.A. in English from John Cabot University in Rome
areas of interest: turn of the century and the transitions occurring between the Victorians and the Modernists, post-colonial, theatre of the absurd, contemporary
favorite works and authors: "Kubla Khan", Middlemarch, Conrad, Chekov, Beckett's Endgame and Waiting for Godot, Czeslaw Milosz, Zadie Smith (favorites subject to change by week!)
miscellaneous: disability advocate, book hoarder, seeker of creative and cultural thrills