"Start with the Students: A Bid for Writing Centers to Be Linguistically More Inclusive" (2020)
The early stages of the Student-Centered Display in the MCC Writing Center
The MCC Writing Center Haiku Contest Display in the Student Center, created by myself and my colleague Cynthia Bazan
This essay, published in Penn State University's The Dangling Modifier Journal, focuses on the importance of writing centers not only embracing a linguistically inclusive space within the individual tutorial session but in the physical space of the center itself. The two photos serve as visual representations of the ideas discussed within the essay.
"Unhomely Language and Space: The Uncanny Aesthetic in Churchill's The Skriker" (2020)
This essay, published in California State University, Long Beach's graduateWatermark Journal, examines Freud's uncanny aesthetic (or, unheimlich) within Caryl Churchill's 1994 play, The Skriker. The premise of this literary analysis is to assert that by effectively utilizing an uncanny aesthetic throughout the play via warped audience expectations of both language and space, Churchill manages to reveal her coded political message to a mid 1990s audience.