Ingrid Lindstrom

MA in Liberal Studies and Human Ecology, UNC Greensboro

BS in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

BA in English Literature, Creative Writing, University of Arizona

I study intersections between science and the humanities utilizing an interdisciplinary method encompassing history, literature, and philosophy. I love intellectual history, literary Darwinism, utopian/dystopian constructs of the self, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, the history of science, and the philosophy of biology. My master's thesis at UNC Greensboro is titled "Human Ecology and the Individual: Geography, History, Art, and Philosophy." I also wrote two honors undergraduate theses at the University of Arizona in astrobiology (BS) and automatic writing (BA).

Teaching English abroad

In November 2013, I moved to Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, to embark on a TEFL career. I completed a certification course at the University of Arizona's Center for English as a Second Language (CESL). In August 2014, I relocated to Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, to accept a job as a teacher of academic English at a private academy. I love living and working in Japan, and am eager to improve my study of the Japanese language.

Personal interests

During quieter moments of the day, I can be found discerning the occupation of a saint:

Men's curiosity searches past and future
And clings to that dimension. But to apprehend
The point of intersection of the timeless
With time, is an occupation for the saint—
No occupation either, but something given
And taken, in a lifetime's death in love,
Ardour and selflessness and self-surrender.
-from "The Dry Salvages", "The Four Quartets" -T.S. Eliot

I identify strongly with Browning's Andrea Del Sarto, take a sigh of relief that I did not take after Goethe's Werther, but still respect Rand's Roark. I love blank notebooks, ice cold ciders, and listening to my collection of vinyl records.

I welcome snail-mail correspondence, long or short, creative or academic.