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A collection of academic writings I've worked on towards the end of my undergraduate career (in Medieval Studies) and throughout my Masters program (in Library Science). Common topics I like to write about are- go figure- medieval & Celtic folklore, medieval gender & sexuality, inclusive cataloguing in libraries, and Intersex Studies. I cannot recommend that you reference these, given their unreviewed nature, but if you find them intriguing for your own research, please consult the citations I have included.
General content warning for unpleasant and/or disturbing topics in these essays. Read at your own discretion.
General content warning for unpleasant and/or disturbing topics in these essays. Read at your own discretion.
A Virtual "Sansara": An Overview of Second Life in the Modern Day - A literature review, history, and analysis of Second Life for a class on the documentation and preservation of video games and gaming artifacts. There is particular emphasis on how SL exists in the modern day since most academic literature on it is quite outdated now. 09.30.25.
Classifying Our Whole Potentiality: Examining Bibliographic Justice for Intersex Communities - The literature review from a research proposal I wrote on the discriminatory history of intersex inclusion in libraries. Later was adapted into a presentation I gave at a statewide conference and for an intersex advocacy organization. 05.15.25.
A Lexicon All Our Own: On Queer Inclusion in Controlled Vocabularies - A broad review of how controlled vocabularies have evolved alongside and for queer identities. 12.01.24.
“Between the Moon and the Earth”: Collisions of Christian Orthodoxy with Fairy Faiths in Late Medieval Britain - My senior paper for a graduate seminar on heresy. I discuss fairy faiths particularly in Wales and how they were allowed to proliferate, melded into something for Christian doctrine, or disavowed entirely. 05.10.24.
“We Were Never Meant to Survive”: The Preservation of Queer Voices through Audre Lorde and Loren Cameron’s Example - My final paper from my queer historical literature course, using the case study of Loren Cameron's missing book as a call to arms about queer historical amnesia. 12.07.23.