MY PROJECTS
Project 1
"Characters Through Time"
I completed my senior thesis for my English degree in December 2015 under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Shepherd. Through the analysis of five character sets (e.g. Hermione from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Hermione Granger from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series), I found that adaptations for children take the best qualities of a classic work and present them in an age-appropriate setting to help young readers attain the critical reading skills necessary for more mature texts. My thesis can be read here.
Project 2
"The Development of Notation in Mathematical Analysis"
I completed my senior thesis for my mathematics degree in May 2016 under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Berg. By tracing the development of analysis from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, I saw how the language of mathematics developed and how notation was standardized in the field. I also concluded that the standardization of mathematical language has had the largest impact on the growth of the field, as it lends ease to both teaching mathematics and communicating with mathematicians globally to produce new publications. My thesis can be read here.
Project 3
"No Pictures Please: Withheld Photographs in Doyle and Eliot"
"No Pictures Please" is a critical paper published in Attic Salt that analyzes how Victorian literature invoked the new medium of photography without actually printing the images discussed to prompt readers to question the authority of evidential photographs in works such as The Lifted Veil by George Eliot and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Adventure I–A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It can be read here.
Project 4
"How Illustrations Function in Piers Plowman"
In May 2014, I received a grant from the University Honors Program at Loyola Marymount University to research how illustrations in one manuscript of the medieval poem Piers Plowman by William Langland interact with the text to reference other literature popular in the fourteenth century. I studied the images of Tom Stowe, Sloth, Fortune, and Free Will under the mentorship of Dr. Stephen Shepherd.