Read Online
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: Have Human Rights Become a Privilege?
[Interpretations, May 2020]
Power and Privilege within the Academy: The Study of Oppressed Identity in David Mamet’s Oleanna
[Interpretations, December 2019]
Copywriting
Wrote and edited the website copy for the newly launched, nonprofit branch of the corporate-catering company Fare Resources
Education
M.A., English Literatures
San Francisco State University
Thesis: Examined hybrid, racial identity in contemporary American literature
M.S., Creative Writing
University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Wrote a complete work of original fiction, a darkly, humorous contemplation of consciousness
B.A., English & World Literature
Pitzer College (part of the Claremont College Consortium)
Thesis: Theorized that Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost is a flawed hero, or one ruled by free will, and that National Lampoon’s Animal House is a contemporary adaptation
Study Abroad, Nepal: Completed a research paper on financial corruption in government allocation of nonprofit funds