Student Profiles: Bonnie Stovall
Anne Lamott wrote in Bird by Bird, “ ... for some of us, books
are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it
is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after
world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books
help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. ... They show
us how to live and die.” After teaching high school English for
two years, I am most interested on how literature affects/illuminates an individual’s
moral development and consequently, a society’s. I am interested
in how the literary canon changes, or doesn’t change, as the case may
be, and the inherent message that is expressed by that action. In conjunction,
I am also fascinated by literature that arises from conflict, such as postcolonial,
feminist, or anything derived from the objectified, because it often sheds
light on the changing values a society is contending with.