Highlights
Feminist Perspectives on Cognitive Science (2022): I was invited to present this paper at Dartmouth’s Workshop on Race, Gender, and Justice lecture series last spring. It summarizes two years’ worth of my discontents with cognitive science and how it fails to acknowledge the work of feminist philosophers who have supported anti-materialist theories of embodiment long before these ideas came into scientific vogue.
Refuting Scientism, Embracing Multiplicity (2022): I presented this paper at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Conference in 2023. This work expands my discontents with scientism beyond the realm of gender, relying on postcolonial thinkers to explain why scientism (particularly, James Ladyman’s articulation of scientism) is an inherently imperialist doctrine that does not and cannot exist peacefully alongside other bodies of knowledge.
Mental Domesticity (2021): This paper was awarded the Dickerson Prize for best essay written by a Dartmouth freshman in a first-year seminar. It analyzes Emily Dickinson’s poetry to introduce the concept of “Mental Domesticity,” which deals with the psychological presence of domestic scenes in Dickinson’s work as a result of her self-confinement to the domestic sphere.
Sophomore Year; 2021-2022
Hypermasculine Hyperspace Cyber Assassination (2022): A short sci-fi story about murderous gang of skateboarding girls in a world where VR has taken precedence over reality. (You’ll have to pardon the violence and vulgarity here).
Technoshamanism: Remixing Shamanism in Rave Culture (2021): Can DJs be considered shamans? An exploration of “technoshamanism” in 90s rave culture which considers the accuracy of the DJ-shaman comparison and the primitivist implications of this phenomenon.
Freshman Year; 2019-2020
Big Brother Is Watching Your Pursuit of Happiness: An analysis of our psychological response to charismatic leaders and how it violates our pursuit of happiness.
In-Game Flow and its Effects on Happiness: A research paper detailing how regular engagement with video games can make us happier people.
In Pursuit of Paradox: Refuting the Aristotelian conception of long-term paradisiacal happiness in favor of a Keatsian “negative capability” approach.
The (Side-)Quest for the Meaning of Life: A theoretical evaluation of how playing video games combats American capitalist mantra and teaches us to value the emotional dimension of life.
High School
War Neurosis through a Freudian Lens: Employing Freudian theory to examine the psychological conditions of shell-shocked soldiers in WW1.
TEAR DOWN THE WALLPAPER!: A plea to the patriarchy to unleash the protagonists of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Yellow Wallpaper and Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour from the insupportable constraints of a male-dominated society.
City upon a Hill?: Critiquing the contradictions of Puritan society as emblemized by The Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown, and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.