About Me
I’ve doomed myself to becoming a doctoral student in English literature.
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Joel Rodgers
- Location
- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Influences and Inspirations
Plato
Favorite Books, Magazines, Art & Music
Dante’s Commedia, Shakespeare’s complete works, Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, George MacDonald’s Lilith, Machiavelli’s Prince, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Charles Williams’ All Hallows’ Eve, Plato’s Republic, Plato’s Symposium, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fables comic books
Academic History
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Undergraduate
- School
- University of Toronto
- Start & End Dates
- — Present
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Starting in September 2008, I’ll be studying for my doctorate at U of T, specializing in early modern and medieval literatures, particularly Shakespeare.
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Undergraduate
- School
- University of Waterloo
- Start & End Dates
- — Present
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I’m currently finishing my master’s degree. I’ve written on an array of topics ranging from the ethics of Shakespearean drama to the aesthetics of terrorism in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion.
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Undergraduate
- School
- St. Thomas University
- Start & End Dates
- — Present
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A phenomenal small university, fostering a wonderful Liberal Arts atmosphere. I owe much of my academic success to its interdisciplinary “Great Ideas” program.
