MATX Projects

The work I have produced as a doctoral student can be found below. It is organized by class, and is chronological in my progression through the program starting with the earliest papers and moving down to the most recent.

MATX 601: Texts and Textuality

• “Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?”: Reworking of Good and Evil and the Contextualization of Other in Wicked
• Commodity Fetishism and Images of Masculinity: A Comparison of Old Spice and Dr Pepper Ten Ad Campaigns
• Stories Within Stories; Texts Within Texts – An analysis of ABC’s Once Upon a Time

MATX 602: History of Media, Art & Text

• Web Series and Web Television: An Introduction
• Web Television: Medium, Genre or Both
• Creativity In Common: Fandom and the Ownership of Ideas

MATX 603: History of Multimedia and Interdisciplinarity

• Keeping it in the Family: Fan Videos and the Eroticization of the Brotherly Bond

WMNS 624: Gender and Cultural Production

• All the World’s A Stage: Multiplicity in Performance of Self in Fandom Role-Playing Games

ENGL 601: Young Adult Literature

• Beyond Twilight: Identity, Anxiety and Agency in YA Vampire Novels

ENGL 661: Orality, Literacy and the Digital

• What are we Privileging?: The Multiliteracies of Fandom
• Debunking the Literacy Thesis

WMNS 620: Theorizing Sexuality

• Jack Harkness: In Your Century, Defying Your Labels

ENGL 570: Hard Science Fiction

• Alienation and Narration in The Handmaid’s Tale
• Intelligence and Agency in Daniel Suarez’s Daemon
• Aimin’ to Misbehave: Agency and Ethics in Serenity and Blade Runner

MATX 791: Independent Study – Queer Pop Culture

• Morality, Humanity and Sexuality in Torchwood

The Experience at Comic-Con: An Ethnographic Study of SDCC 2012

• Policing the Lines