MA Student
MA Student
Professional Links & Recent Works
- “The Destructive Queer Body: On Black Iris and Legitimating Queer Identity Through Violence.” Modern Horizons, Vol. 8.1 (June 2018).
- “‘Are You Ready to be Strong?’: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Transgressive to the Strong Female Character Stereotype.” Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, Vol. 9.1 (April 2016).
- “‘If There’s One Thing Everyone on Cybertron Seems to be Missing, it’s a Little Compassion’: Sex and Gender as Anomaly and Commonality in Transformers and its Fandom,” Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR, March 2016.
- CV
I am an impassioned writer and disability rights activist. My research focuses on media's aesthetic investments in warfare, carceral biopolitics, and affect at the intersections of identity, bodily autonomy, and ability. Born from this emphasis, I analyze how media frames the human as a rhetorical space of power. I love to read, cook, play the violin, and hang out with my cat.
Areas of interest: postmillennial media, queer theory, women's and gender studies, critical carceral and war studies.