Research · Writing · Methods
Scholarship & Inquiry
Essays and shorter arguments developed from my work in literary studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, digital humanities, quantitative methods, gender and sexuality studies, and interdisciplinary research.
These pieces preserve the central arguments of longer academic work while making the methods and ideas accessible outside the seminar-paper format.
Areas of inquiry
Questions across disciplines
Literary and comparative study
Medical humanities and embodiment
Digital humanities and quantitative methods
Gender, sexuality, and systems
Writing, pedagogy, and research methods
Literature, Reading & Method
Close reading, interpretive method, material evidence, computational patterns, and the question of how literary value is made.
The Strange Hand in Jekyll and Hyde
Hands, touch, handwriting, embodiment, queerness, and the material evidence of identity in Stevenson.
What Do We Do When We Read?
A methodological model distinguishing description, interpretation, explanation, and evaluation.
Lana Turner Has Collapsed! and the Trouble with Literary Prestige
What computational patterns, popular culture, and productive outliers can tell us about literary value.
What Happens When an Epic Refuses to Name Its Dead?
Naming, anonymity, punctuation, collective identity, and the movement from the endless to the infinite in The Descent of Alette.
Embodiment, Gender & Systems
How bodies become legible through perspective, technology, classification, surveillance, language, and social systems.
It Was Like an Apparition
Gender, perspective, education, and proximity space in Flaubert’s L’Éducation sentimentale.
When Medical Language Changes the Body
Medical surveillance, self-observation, technology, and the changing boundaries of embodied experience.
Methods, Writing & Learning
Research and writing as practices of reasoning, revision, collaboration, and making judgment visible.
Revision Is Not Correction
What pure mathematics, peer collaboration, and reader-centered feedback taught me about revision, writing pedagogy, and the difference between correction and judgment.
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Portfolio
Case studies across research, analytics, curriculum, digital humanities, and systems design.
Research & Writing Tools
Templates and systems for planning research, synthesizing evidence, writing, ethics, and quantitative analysis.
Publications
Published and public-facing writing across scholarship, research, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary inquiry.