Writing & Research

This page includes links to some samples of my writing and research. If you choose to reference any of these materials, I simply ask that you include attributions as appropriate. Please contact me if you have questions.

  • Home Work as Care Work (2022)
    • Abstract: This peer-reviewed piece documents the multimodal writing and carework of two dual-career academics as they navigate the pandemic in a newly purchased home. Both have faced some degree of mental wellness obstacles at some point, and the stories here provide some (pre-pandemic) background that they believe establishes their responses to the pandemic and what carework looks like living through the pandemic. Ultimately, carework, their home, and their hobbies have converged in such a way that leisure activities and the results of those leisure activities bring them joy and satisfaction, which have proved monumental in supporting their wellness over the duration of the pandemic.
  • Safely Social: User-centered design and difference feminism (2019)
    • Context: Safely Social began as a digital project for a class centered on social justice and access. Myself and two classmates worked collaboratively on proposing the design and development of a smartphone app to support domestic violence survivors in navigating privacy settings on smartphones. This research project has been presented on at national and international conferences, and has a peer-reviewed book chapter in the book Composing Feminist Interventions, edited by Kris Blair and Lee Nickoson. Below are a few examples of materials developed as a part of this research project.
    • Map of activity stream from early planning and assessment of relationships and interactions associated with domestic violence.lifestream
    • Interactive wireframe of the proposed smartphone app.
  • Computers & Writing Conference Presentation (2019)