Graduate Stories

My teaching and research focus on the study of animation and film, modernization and technology, media theory, and globalization.

Riddled with geologic faults, Italy has a long history of earthquakes and other seismic activity.

Recombinant is a hybrid collection of poems that investigates female and genderqueer lineage in the context of labor smuggling and trafficking.

My poetry manuscript and creative dissertation, Unhistorical, combines transformative writing, historical narratives, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that begins in Scotland and falls apart in America, as the narrator finds herself in the role of spectator to her partner’s genius.

My dissertation examines communication practices in a cooperatively owned, collectively managed company, the Riverwest Public House Cooperative here in Milwaukee.

Social media permeates our culture, including so much of the writing that students do in their daily lives.

I spent my time at UWM exploring how the processes of globalization have completely transformed what Americans eat.

My research tells the story of how lenses became cinema lenses. While lenses are essential for film production, we know very little about the early history of cinema lenses.

In the context of globalization, the rising awareness of the world as an interconnected place, my poetry seeks to explore writing across languages and creative translation;

My work aims to theorize “the Weird,” named as such in the supernatural horror of H.P. Lovecraft in the early part of the twentieth century in America.