Bio
My name is Amanda Krauss and I am a former professor and current web developer.
I always hated telling people I was a professor, and still hate telling them I used to be one. Inevitably they get all weird and start talking about how important education is, even if they don’t mean it. Truthfully, the fact that I have PhD and worked at Vanderbilt are the least representative things about me.
So here’s a list of some other, more interesting things I’ve done:
–Worked at a summer stock theater as a wardrobe manager, costume stitcher, and stage manager.
–Translated a whole play from ancient Greek to hilarious modern English, just for fun. Also translated poetry, at points, inevitably in the service of chasing boys.
–Worked for the Census Bureau, then gotten terminated for not showing up to a meeting that three separate supervisors told me wasn’t happening.
–Worked as a Google Ad Rater, while I was still a prof, making more money per hour than I did as a prof.
–Worked for kgb_ (the info text service, not the Russian police) just long enough to be horrified.
–Measured ancient bricks for a whole summer at an archaeological dig in Italy. Twice.
–Acted as an unofficial drill sergeant/life coach/Git-r-done consultant for multiple friends.
–Performed unintentional physical comedy every single day of my life. Seriously, if it were possible to score negatively on spatial intelligence tests, I would.
–Turned Misanthropy into the extreme sport it has always wanted to be.