Do you specialize in any areas?

Literature (Poetry, Fiction, Theory, Catholicism, Queer Studies)

What is your favorite thing to research?

Whatever I am interested in at the moment. Right now: The Phenomenology of Perception. I also enjoy researching WIU, looking at data to get a better feel for what is going on which matters in my role as Union President.

Tell about a time when you were able to help a patron that really sticks with you.

Helping a patron who could not get her thesis to paginate correctly. Tight deadline. I had to learn Word pagination, which is complex because pagination can be complex.

How can patrons get ahold of you?

Email: wat100.thompson@gmail.com

What do you geek out over?

Hmmmm.....data, gadgets (latest is digitally controlling lights in my house via my iPad, using the Phillips lighting system.), image software and hardware.