Annabella Nordlund

Annabella graduated summa cum laude from Pepperdine University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, a Bachelor of Arts in French Studies, and a minor in Great Books. As an undergraduate, she worked as a Great Books TA, French tutor, RA, and poetry chair of Expressionists, Pepperdine’s magazine of the arts. Annabella also served as student director and choreographer of Dance in Flight, Pepperdine’s dance company. Back home in British Columbia, she works at a winery, providing wine tastings and informational background on the viticulture of the Okanagan. At Pepperdine, she studied the dualism between body and soul through texts such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and used trauma theory to analyze Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles in her senior thesis. Currently, her favourite piece of literature is Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star. Aside from reading, she writes poetry exploring themes of contemplation and abstraction through inanimate objects. Several of these poems have been published in The Rectangle, Sigma Tau Delta’s journal of creative writing. At Villanova, she looks forward to furthering her studies of mind/body dualism, works of Eastern literature, and 19th century American poetry. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, cooking, skiing, running, and making playlists.