Haha, yeah. Not really. I am really bad at creating titles for posts. I’m also quite bad at introducing myself, as I’m not exactly certain how to do it effectively. Anyways, my name is Jason Benkly. I am a first year MA student. While the track I am on is Multicultural and World Literature, I plan on focusing on the connections between labor oppression and other forms of social oppression; exactly what other forms of social oppression I will focus on, I am still uncertain.

Besides my, sometimes unhealthy, love for reading, I also enjoy listening to live music (usually some sub-genre of punk, although I have recently fallen in love with 80’s protest folk, namely early-era Billy Bragg). Beyond that, I enjoy cheap wine, good company, interesting debate and discussion (be it focused on politics, social issues, world happenings, etc.), and hockey (I’m not very good at being a Floridian).

So, yeah. Again, not too effective at the whole “introducing myself” thing. Anyways, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. I’m extremely socially awkward until I get comfortable (this will probably happen around the time I finish my Master’s thesis); however, if you get me talking, I have a tendency to not shut up.