CURRENT MISSION

plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches

ABOUT ME

Philosophy grad student, lover of good food and wine, rock and roll, crass jokes, and intelligent conversation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Just moved to Chicago after living in rural Minnesota and Pennsylvania for the last decade, so while I haven't been able to be active as a host in the past I'm looking forward to being able to participate more!

Interests

beautifully written books; good food, and the work of preparing it; learning the great american songbook, despite having the musical sensibilities of a drowned cat

• literature
• traveling
• folk music
• gender studies
• philosophy
• conversation
• rock'n'roll
• sex education
• prison abolition

Music, Movies, and Books

eerie folk and blues (Lomax field recordings, Tommy Johnson), morose songwriters (Sybille Baier, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt), buzzy fuzzy psychedelic pop (Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Beach Boys, Jonathan Richman)

Plato, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Fanon, Lugones

Maggie Nelson, Elena Ferrante, Anne Carson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett

Passion of Joan of Arc, La Strada, Paris Texas, Fanny and Alexander

What I Can Share with Hosts

Conversation, in English or in very rusty German. I'm especially interested in discussing radical democratic projects, immigration, race, crime and punishment, and sexual politics and culture--I teach college classes in feminism and gender studies.
Singing and dancing as unskilled as it is enthusiastic.
A mediocre cook but enthusiastic eater and aspiring cocktail maker.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, United States