Research

With a theoretical aproach originating from the work of Raymond Williams, the keyword essay is a method for analyzing terms that appear stable but are in fact historically layered and contested. Williams treated keywords as entry points into broader social and intellectual formations, showing how shifts in meaning track changes in culture, power, and ideology. This project takes up that method while situating it more broadly within a Burkean framework. Drawing on Kenneth Burk

This project is a presentation and reading report on Chapter Two of Ariella Azoulay’s The Civil Contract of Photography  (2008), prepared for RCID 8130: Visual Rhetorics and the Other Subjects of Modernity. This work reflects several elements central to my research interests: Moving visual theory from epistemology to political obligation Reading images as infrastructures of power rather than isolated objects Attending to vulnerability and asymmetrical citizenship Rather than

This project is a visual research report I produced in late 2025 examining how major social media platforms address the safety of transgender users through policy and enforcement. The 2025 Transgender Social Media Safety Report analyzes 15 widely used platforms, comparing stated policy commitments with observable moderation practices. The report identifies a persistent gap between policy presence and policy performance. While many platforms name gender identity or expression

This post shares an in-progress draft that reflects my research and writing style, conceptual development, and method of argumentation. The piece, Synthetic Sophists and the Predictive Situation , is a working manuscript that brings together rhetorical theory, critical technology studies, and trans studies to examine how algorithmic systems operate as persuasive and truth-producing actors within institutional infrastructures. Rather than presenting a polished or finalized arg

Here, I share a first-pass draft of theoretical project that argues for mediation as a sixth rhetorical canon. The paper was written as an exploratory intervention, focused on mapping a genealogy of mediation across rhetoric, philosophy, media theory, and cultural studies, and on testing whether mediation names a distinct form of rhetorical labor not fully accounted for by the classical canons. As an early draft, the piece is not yet fully flushed out. Most notably, it lacks

This project is a short reading-engagement presentation I created to share a course reading with my seminar. The presentation works through Boyle, Brown, and Ceraso’s “The Digital: Rhetoric Behind and Beyond the Screen” and focuses on how the authors reframe the digital as an ambient, multisensory, and infrastructural condition rather than a screen-bound medium. Rather than summarizing the article exhaustively, the presentation isolates key concepts that felt generative for d