Jacob Harmon
Jacob was born in the Shenandoah Valley and grew up in the mountains of Georgia. After high school in Jacksonville, Florida, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and earned his BA in English. He spent a year abroad at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, where he became an Anglophile.
After college, Jacob dug ditches, sold industrial supplies, worked for a funeral service, and taught English both in Korea and in Reno. He joins the L & E community seeking his Master's degree. When he is not reading, Jacob enjoys hiking, swimming, riding his motorcycle, watching baseball, and listening to old records.
Jacob's research interests lie in postcolonial ecocriticism and baseball literature. For more information, contact him at liliputia.at.gmail.com.