Academic Papers
This page is a collection of works I have created during my academic career. The scope and style of these papers are wide-spread, and encompass the many aspects of my unique writing style.
In this assignment, I was tasked to "follow" a footnote of my choice from Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic back to it's original source and describe how that source helps of hinders the arguement that Gilbert and Gubar are making. I followed my footnote to chapter four of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One.
After reading "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory" by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, I expanded on the group of conditions known as intersex. I went into the aspects that make up this condition, along with the controversy and history that surrounds it.
For a final project, I was asked to apply a literary theory that I had studied that semester to a piece of media of my choosing. I decided to use reader-response theory in relation to the 2013 video game The Stanley Parable, published by Galactic Cafe. My focus is on how when people are playing narrative-based video games, not only are they creating meaning from their experience, their experience is also creating the story through their playing.
The Arthurian tradition is a flawed one. Though it has been depicted in media as a story about a golden age, the myth itself is anything but golden with its content of rape, incest, war, and massacres. As a feminist scholar, I planned to approach this class from that lens from the beginning, which is precisely what I did. Throughout the course, I paid particular attention to the appearance and role of women in each piece of media.