Outside of my UX work, I like to write. I am particularly interested in applying feminist media theory to video games and art
Fair Haired: Considering Blonde Women in Film and Advertising
My undergraduate thesis earned me graduation with distinction in Visual and Media Studies, and won two awards:
Visual and Media Studies Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis
Chester P. Middlesworth Award for excellence in use of primary sources at the Rubenstein Rare Books Library
Birds, Cages, Damsels, and Daughters: Feminist and Anti-Feminist Implications of Elizabeth in Bioshock: Infinite
I wrote this paper for a course called World of Gaming, at Duke University. It uses a feminist lens to analyze the character of Elizabeth in the video game Bioshock: Infinite
Artists, Curators, Maps, and Hearts: An Analysis of Les Visitants, and exhibition curated by Guillermo Kuitca
During my study abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I took a course focused on exhibitions around the city, and for my final project I wrote an analysis of Les Visitants, an exhibition curated by famous Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca
I wrote this paper for one of my courses on media theory. In it, I attempt to analyze modern social media through the lens of Brazilian poet Oswalde de Andrade’s “Cannibalist Manifesto” (Manifesto Antropofago).