Academic Writing
“Foreword.” Men, Women & Ghosts by Amy Lowell. Cita Press. (1916 [2023]). Forthcoming.
“Faerian Play: Affective (Dis)Enchantment in Breath of the Wild” – Advised by Patrick Jagoda, precepted by Chris Carloy. First completed as MA thesis, continues to be updated. (Spring 2025)
— Interrogates the juxtaposition of intimate procedural engagement with Breath of the Wild‘s expansive and authentic gameworld and the game’s diegetic situatedness of nature, kingdom, and magic in its post-apocalyptic fantasy context.
- Presented at:
- Works in Progress Conference on the “Romance, Spectre & Landscape” Panel with Kendra Allman, Eleanor Clark, Kira Schukar, and Isabel Thompson, University of Chicago, (28 February 2025.)
- Digital Media Workshop with Katherine Buse as respondent. University of Chicago. (15 May 2026.)
“Wonder, Disenchantment, and the Trouble with Barton Fink” – Advised by Jim Hansen, read and awarded high honors by Irvin Hunt, José Capino. Completed as Honors English Thesis. (December 2023)
— Considers structures of cinematic subject/objectivity through the film’s material and affective confrontation of the gendered discrimination of creative labor, the material and political apparatuses of culture industries, and modes of violence that emerge from fantasization.
“Artificiality and Phenomenal Wonder: An Inquiry into Hannah Arendt’s Division of Being” – Advised by Helga Varden. Completed as Philosophy BA thesis for satisfaction of the capstone requirements. (Spring 2023)
— Tracks Hannah Arendt’s use of thaumazein, or speechless wonder, across The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and The Life of the Mind in order to clarify the phenomenological dimensions of her supposed division of selfhood.
“Negative Enchantment: Exploring the Ruins of Phenomenal Wonder” – Written for CMST 67209 The Frankfurt School, taught by Daniel Morgan at the University of Chicago. (Spring 2025)
— Analysis of the theoretical shift of notions of (dis)enchantment through close readings of Friedrich Schiller’s poetry and “Aesthetic Letters” comparatively critiqued with Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and (w/ Max Horkheimer) Dialectic of Enlightenment.
- Presented at:
- Graduate Philosophy Works-in-Progress Workshop. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (Upcoming Fall 2026)
“Fantasies of Technologies & Gender” – Written for ENGL 582 Data Feminism, taught by Melissa Littlefield at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (Spring 2024)
— Inquiry of the technologically mediated shift in gender politics through historical and critical accounts by Meredith Broussard, Donna Haraway, Paul Preciado, and Legacy Russell.
