ENAM 314: African-American Literature Survey II
Q: If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?
A: Well I guess if I don't take my husband I'd be in trouble.
Q: What is your ideal Valentine's Day date?
A: Well it's not really romantic. I must have incredibly low standards, I guess it's because I don't get out much. This weekend my mother-in-law is coming down to watch our son, and we're going to dinner and a movie. I guess that's kind of pitiful that that is my ideal, but yeah. It's the simple things, that's what it is. It's the little things. We're going to dinner and a movie and we don't get a chance to do that. I want to go to a restaurant where the menus don't have pictures.
Q: Do you have any unusual interests or hobbies?
A: Well, I don't know if this is unusual, but I sew clothes and I can quilt. One thing I've tried to do every year since I've been here is to make an outfit for the first day of class. To wear something that I've made on the first day. Just, if not the whole thing, then a piece of something.
Q: What would be your ideal break? What are you doing for this upcoming spring break?
A: What am I doing this spring break? Nothing. My ideal spring break would be, well, I'll list two ideals. One ideal would be to go on a sewing retreat, or a quilting retreat, like out in, you know, the mountains or something -- in a cabin with someone doing all the cooking, and I would have all this free time to sew and quilt for a whole week. That would be ideal. That would be what I would want to do, you know, like by myself. To have time by myself or with other people that sewed or quilted.And if I did it with my husband and my child then I'd want to go to Las Vegas. Because I've never been to Las Vegas, and I hear that if you don't gamble -- which I don't gamble -- then it's cheap. That's what I heard. And they have all kinds of shows, and the food is supposed to be good. I mean, what's not to like about that?
Q: What other profession besides teaching interests you?
A: Oh, I wanted to be a nurse practitioner. I think that's really interesting. Like doing women's health issues and counseling and providing that internal medical-type service. There were some really nice nurse practitioners when I was in college, and you'd go to them instead of doctors for your check-ups or whatever. I thought that was a really nice job -- like a great job.
Q: What is your favorite movie and why?
A: "Smoke Signals." I really liked that. I liked "Monster's Ball" and "Harry Potter." Those three -- not in that order.
Q: What is your favorite book?
A: This is impossible; it's an absolutely impossible question. One favorite book -- I could pick out a favorite book from every decade I think. I think a book that meant a lot to me in my career and in the course of writing the book that I'm working on right now is "Kindred" by Xavier Butler. I think it's really a great book. I really enjoy the whole premise of the book. It's about a black woman in the 1970s and her white husband who get transported back to the 13th century, where she lives as a slave, and he pretends to be her master.
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