Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Dani Shalet, one of my former PhD students at the University of Kent. Dani is originally from Pennsylvania and we find out why she doesn’t consider herself to be culturally American any more. She once wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a lawyer and we find out why her father advised her not to follow that path. We also learn about Dani’s background in martial arts and how she would spend her childhood walking through creeks and lakes to catch snakes, including the time she accidentally killed her father’s snakes, and how she no longer has a fear of animals. We learn why Indiana Jones was once Dani’s hero, and musically we learn about her passions and how she became interested in alternative rock, e.g. the work of Tori Amos. We find out about the circumstances which led Dani to leave home for Canterbury, and why she chose to stay, and how she found Kent to be a more advantageous environment, where she was accepted for who she was. Dani talks about her inspirati