Dru Pagliassotti
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Thousand Oaks, California, United States |
| Introduction | In addition to writing fiction, I'm the editor in chief of The Harrow and owner of The Harrow Press. I teach communication studies at California Lutheran University and currently research the ways in which yaoi manga is being imported and developed in the U.S. Like Chris Howard here, I'm a military brat — Air Force - and have lived all over. I still love to travel; I spent a recent sabbatical living in Venice and I'm soon heading out to India for three weeks with 14 students in tow.... |
| Interests | iguanas, horror, weird fantasy, hardboiled mystery, Regency romance, boys' love (yaoi), gothy manga, tall ships, the Napoleonic Wars, the social histories of London and Paris, executioners and executions through history, animal skulls, India, Italy, the Most Serene Republic of Venice, Albrecht Durer's art, Catholic folk beliefs, target shooting, Monarchy tee shirts, RenFaire, brooding antiheroes, blazers, rescuing worms off sidewalks |
| Favorite movies | Labyrinth, Hellraiser II: Hellbound, Branagh's Hamlet, Time Bandits, Master and Commander, Jesus Christ Superstar |
| Favorite music | heavy metal, classic rock, classic, Childe ballads, Celtic rock, Celtic folk, filk, zydeco, medieval a capella, Native American, sitar, Kodo drumming |
| Favorite books | Swordspoint, The Big Sleep & all Raymond Chandler, Dearly Devoted Dexter, The Last Unicorn, The Dark is Rising, Glen Cook's Black Company series, Steven Erikson's Mazalan Book of the Fallen, China Mieville's New Crubuzon, Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion, M. John Harrison's Viriconium, Liza Picard's social histories of London |