hazelnutmeg is an aspiring classicist. She studied classics and comparative literature for her undergraduate degree and is due to start graduate school in the fall of 2014. In the meantime she is teaching English abroad. Her hobbies include early music, contra dance, and writing.
She is a fan of modernism in its poetic and artistic forms.
Hazelnutmeg's main academic interests are Greek drama, theatre history and architecture, and performance. She also maintains interests in translation studies and lyric poetry. In her academic career, she writes papers on topics ranging from Sapphic poetics to humor in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, to gender as political device in the Oresteia. Someday, she hopes that someone will pay her to teach and write about these interests.
In her "spare time", she writes mainly poetry, tweets, and Wikipedia articles. She has been known to dabble in musical composition. She possesses some skill in singing, guitar, and basic recorder. She wishes to learn to play the harpsichord, Appalachian dulcimer, and lyre.
She is currently quintilingual, but only if you include dead languages: she speaks English, German, Spanish, Latin, and Ancient Greek. She is working on Italian but has only a basic reading knowledge. She also has a basic reading knowledge of Dutch and enough French to read street signs and paragraphs on L'Année Philologique. She also took a semester of Russian but has forgotten everything except, "Я не говорю по-русски." She would love to learn Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Arabic, and maybe also Linear B. Currently those are all classified as side projects. Other interests include good grammar, webcomics, drinking lots of tea, post-it notes, cooking, and receiving snail mail. She is the proud owner of a well-loved trowel, even though it isn't a WHS.
Hazelnutmeg is easily bribed with dark chocolate, books, and tricolons.
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