Writing
It gathers the vastness of an authors inner world into words. Thoughts are often difficult to put on paper, but it a challenge that I have always enjoyed. Below are some samples of elusive ideas I have pinned down in pen. Click the pictures to view the text in Google Docs.
Gemütlichkeit
a short story
My first published work, a short story about my family history as told through a meal: slow cooked ribs and sauerkraut. Let the smell of apple, bay, vinegar, and brown sugar draw you in to my Oma's table. You can find it in a collection of similarly themed stories titled Tasteful Diversity.
Low Tide
a magical realist play
A magical realist play in progress that takes you to the cliffs of Greece as two gods struggle for fulfillment. It twists traditional gender tropes and explores what lengths we will go to challenge fate and achieve our destiny.
Barrier Theory
a critical communication theory
This work is the capstone of my Communication Theory course, my own communication theory developed over the course of a semester of interviews and research. It draws attention to the variety and intersectionality of barriers to particularly online communication.
Book Review: Movies Are Prayers
a theoretical review
This essay examines Josh Larson's Movies Are Prayers as advice to the movie maker, movie goer, and communication theorist. It draws on the work of celebrated communication theorists to connect Movies Are Prayers into larger conversations around making and interpreting meaning.
The Women of Venice
an argumentative essay
This essay connects the scholarship on feminism and antisemitism in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare empowers women more than would be common in his contemporaries, encumbered only by the antisemitism that seeps into his writing.