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Michele Merritt
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- What was your arts area major?
- Dance
- What year did you graduate? (Or what year would you have graduated?)
- 1999
- What do you do now?
- Philosophy...seriously. And I'm still in school! Went to Atlanta to apprentice with the Atlanta Ballet for a year after graduation, but realized quickly that it wasn't for me. Plus, while attending Oglethorpe up there for a year, I took a bunch of physics courses and one philosophy course and decided that of all the things I could do to make money, I would choose the one in which I would make the least, naturally.
So, I returned to Jax and finished my BA at UNF in 2002, started grad school at University of South Florida in 2003 as a teaching assistant in the philosophy department, and earned an MA in philosophy and an MA in applied linguistics in May of 2007. This past year, I have traveled the world presenting research, some funded by the European Science Foundation (you can see one of the projects here: http://www.philosophy.ucf.edu/pcs/basic.html) and am now settled back in Tampa writing a dissertation (or supposed to be anyways). My main interests are in the philosophy and science of consciousness, embodiment, technology and gender. My dissertation deals specifically with the malleability of embodiment and cognition, particularly with gendered and transgendered bodies.
I teach courses at University of South Florida, University of Tampa, and Hillsborough Community College, mostly in philosophy, sometimes English as a second language. For fun, I pretend to train for triathlons, although I have yet to do one...I mostly swim open water marathons around Florida.
Hope to catch up with some of you as I have lost contact with all the HS crew and now hang with a bunch of academics, which, although fun in its own way, can be tedious ;) My email is mindasbrain@hotmail.com or you can skype me at michele.merritt (as a weirdo philosopher, naturally, I have boycotted all forms of myspacing)
As for my pics below, the first is from Taiwan, then me and my beau, Mike, at various gatherings, Zoe and me in Scotland during a conference, then me and Andy Clark, one of my dissertation members from Edinburgh (we are at a bar in Edinburgh in the pic) then the dogs on a camping trip, then pics from San Marino (a super small country landlocked in Italy I was just at for a conference), and then some more Taipei pics, Taipei 101, me and some Taiwanese philosophy students, etc.
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But it's late and I'm tired, getting ready for back to school stuff, so I'll e-mail you and we'll catch up, but I did want to say hi and I'm so glad we found each other again!
My email is txshortstufff@aol.com so keep an eye out okay?
Later slacker!!
It's so good to see you! I remember the last time we saw each other was a party at your house a year or two after graduation. ; ) So glad to see you are doing well. I think of you often. You've done some really neat things!!!
I actually recommended to our social studies teacher that she try to find "The American Reader" to use in class, and a part of me died inside because no one in the vicinity would have understood if I yelled out "corntang."
My email is sara.kathryn@gmail.com or sarahawkins@manornewtech.org . We must email.
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