Witt Nation Cast: About Heather Wright

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Wittenberg Affiliation: Professor
Hometown: Hatfield, Massachusetts

What is your favorite Wittenberg memory?
Being awarded tenure in May - now I can always be a part of this amazing place!

Why Witt Nation?
All the world should know what a terrific place Witt is! And I can’t wait to catch-up with my former students, and befriend other Witt alums.

What is your involvement on the trip?
Trip theorist?

What is a lesson you learned while at Wittenberg?
There’s nothing better than turning students on to a text they thought was either beyond them, or would be boring. Teaching political theory is definitely my calling.

Tunes?
Grateful Dead, Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Benny Goodman, Frank Zappa.

Favorites:
Show: the Paul Taylor Dance Company; television: Seinfeld; radio: This American Life
Movie: Annie Hall.
Team: Boston Red Sox.
Book: This is an impossible question! Anything by Don DeLillo or Plato. Or whatever I’m teaching at a given moment.
Food: Indian cuisine; sushi; the current menu at The Winds Café in Yellow Springs.
Music: Terrapin Station by The Grateful Dead.

Interesting fact about yourself:
I once studied Ninjutsu in a New York City dojo.

Road Trip Essentials:
Coffee, and a sunny day.