Welcome to the Stratford to QC blog. Why the weird name? Well, I am a grad student at Arizona State University in English Literature focusing on English Renaissance literature, particularly Shakespeare. One of the things I have always loved about Shakespeare is he was an uneducated small-town guy who made it in the city and beat all of the wealthier and better-educated at their own game.
I, too, am from a small town, Queen Creek, AZ (the QC), and its always been my goal to bridge the cultural gap between the world I live in now (academe) and the world I came from, because they are both essential parts of who I am. I will probably go more into this as the blog continues, so we'll leave it here for now and I will be back soon.
"I guess heaven is easier to get into than Arizona State." -Ned Flanders
About Me
- David Boyles
- Arizona born and raised, I am a graduate student in English Literature at Arizona State. I pay the bills keeping the books for H&R Block, tutoring, and teaching SAT prep. You could describe me as a redneck bookworm with an unhealthy obsession with pop culture. In my academic work, I try to tie these elements together by focusing on Shakespeare's relationship to popular culture and film studies. On this site, I basically try to do the same thing, but in a much more free-wheeling (some would say incoherent) manner.
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- Beatles (1)
- books (2)
- country music (3)
- film (7)
- Gilmore Girls (1)
- Hamlet (1)
- Henry V (3)
- idiots (3)
- Laurence Olivier (3)
- Medium Inferiority Complex (1)
- Quentin Tarantino (1)
- Richard III (1)
- Shakespeare (12)
- Simpsons (2)
- Sopranos (6)
- sports (3)
- The Wire (1)
- Titus Andronicus (3)
- video (3)
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