december 2021 graduate exercise, “selected page from the visual score to aria, john cage”
august 2020 – may 2021 undergraduate thesis, “are they both you? tracing the lives of meta-cinema and the female nonidentity”
"this superposition of seeming-like and being is the fundamental principle upon which the alternate plane of cinematic reality rests. in re-articulating refracted light it becomes what gilles deleuze terms “a language system which has its own logic… which takes utterances of language, with signifying units and operations from it, but the utterable itself, its images and signs, are of another nature” (cinema 2, 262). of course what exactly this language system has communicated has always been in part tied to the finances of the studio system, invested in the ideological preservation of the mechanism of its profit. the history of art cinema has undoubtedly been, however, the product of innumerable global veins of genuine effort to leverage film’s potential for subversive image-making, some towards themes of its very form. these artists in particular stretch the medium past its operational definitions: interrogating and restructuring its position as both interpreter and maker of the discursive fabric of reality. the present study is a concentrated effort to understand how film artists have used the reflexivity of their chosen medium to interrogate distinctly feminine-coded superpositions of both bearing and receiving gaze, and to articulate what connotations their findings hold for the inherently observatory and voyeuristic medium at large."
december 2020 english 450 final, “'terrible joy and no less terrible despair:' sublimation and psychoanalysis in the portrait of mr. w.h.”
april 2020 english 364 final, “unspeakable things, unspoken: traumatic love and critical indeterminacy in beloved’s text and criticism"
summer 2019 archival research project in dublin ie, “something borrowed, something dead: the psychic love story of mrs. w. b. yeats and her automatic script’s place in the tradition of modernist l'écriture feminine"
this project was completed during the summer of 2019 and presented in the fall, in fulfillment of a grant from the summer undergraduate research with faculty (surf) program. its methods entailed working with archival material in the national library of ireland to produce a historical feminist re-reading of george hyde-lee’s lifelong practice of automatic writing as psycho-spiritual creative product, influencing her husband w.b. yeats’ poetry tremendously and asserting her as its collaborative co-author.
april 2019 english 390 final, “'if you wish this fire lit:' hitchcock's mrs. danvers and her heterotopic interiors"
april 2019 honors 381 final, “'escape this also, but half naked and in burned rags:' constructing henry darger beyond the realms of the unreal and into the american artistic tradition
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fall 2018 independent study, “two autumns and a lifetime: rainbows, revisions, and biographical representations of virginia woolf and the composition of mrs dalloway"