Emily Palmisano (they/them) is the Associate Student Representative for the Midwest Region. They are in their senior year at the University of Evansville, majoring in literature and minoring in British Studies, Spanish, and Gender/Women’s/Sexuality Studies. They hope their answers give a good perspective on what their therapy sessions normally look like 🙂 If that’s not enough, they generally study the creation of the self and body studies.
- I chose to become an English Major because  it’s the best way to continue my love of language. I came into college planning to teach college, so the major made sense, but it’s given me more opportunities than I ever expected.
- My favorite part of being an English Major is the universe of options that I’ve been presented with. I could work in communications, editing, publishing, teaching, public relations… endless possibilities!
- The last book I read was Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIÂ by David Grann.
- My favorite book is In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.
- A book character I identify with is Harrow Nonagesimus from Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir.
- The last book I bought was Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone, but I have not read it yet.
- My favorite book to movie adaptation is The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
- I’m both a reader and a writer.
- My favorite style of writing is academic! I love to pull a difficult contradiction out of a piece.
- My go-to children’s book is Go to Sleep, Gecko! by Margaret Read MacDonald.
- My favorite childhood memory is getting a new book immediately before a road trip to the zoo.
- Growing up, I was sure I would be a writer.
- My first job was babysitting, then tutoring.
- My dream job is a reference in someone’s “further reading.“
- I like to spend my free time watching video essays, frequenting coffee shops, gardening, and petting as many dogs as humanly possible.
- The destination at the top of my travel bucket list is Venice.
- The literary place I’d most like to visit is San Sebastian, Spain.
- If I could move anywhere in the world, I’d live in Chicago.
- If I was stranded on a desert island, the three things I would bring with me are my latest crochet project, a way to listen to American Idiot, and all about love by bell hooks.
- The one song I could listen to on repeat is “GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE” by The Narcissist Cookbook.
- The best gift I ever received was a pair of earrings from my next-door neighbor, now best friend and roommate. They were really the start of the whole relationship.
- The best gift I’ve ever given is a collage of my dad’s Facebook posts about parenting.
- If you find me in the kitchen, I’m typically whipping up some kind of potatoes.
- If I could try any food from a book or series, it would be whatever Esther eats in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath after the fig metaphor: “I don’t know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful.”
- The author (dead or alive) I’d most like to spend a day with is bell hooks, absolutely.
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