Student Profiles: Kelly Goad
My
interests as a student and as an individual are unapologetically intertwined. The
person I have become at the ripe old age of 22 has been molded by the stories
I have read, the authors I have studied, and the experiences of the characters
I continue to learn from. I find myself preoccupied with the Romantic
period with a special interest in the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley. I plan on further pursuing
my Senior Thesis, a study of the paratexts of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s
Lyrical Ballads and their intentions and limitations as prose works written
as a complement to the collection of poetry. I am endlessly fascinated
by Walt Whitman and the ways in which his writing reveals the temper of an
American people searching for a unified national identity. I plan on
reading, writing, learning, teaching, thinking, and feeling every single day
for the rest of my life.