This page highlights my academic writing, rhetorical analysis, and presentation work across literature and communication studies. These projects reflect my interest in sustained argument, close reading, revision, and the use of visual evidence to support complex analytical claims. Together, they show how I approach writing as both an intellectual and practical tool for making meaning, building arguments, and communicating clearly with different audiences.
Rhetorical analysis, literary interpretation, presentation design, and visual argumentation
Mary Fisher Speech Analysis
One of the most substantial research projects in my academic work focused on Mary Fisher’s 1992 “A Whisper of AIDS” speech. This project examined how vocal delivery, rhetorical structure, and measurable features such as pitch, timing, and intensity work together to shape affective force in public speech. It allowed me to combine close reading with data-supported analysis and to think carefully about how style produces meaning beyond the level of words alone.
Figure from a larger rhetorical analysis project examining how prosodic and stylistic features shape the force of public speech.
Literary Response Work
My literary writing often begins with close reading, but I am most interested in where that reading opens outward into broader questions about systems, power, vulnerability, and lived experience. Across response papers and longer analytical essays, I have worked to build arguments that stay grounded in textual detail while also connecting literature to larger cultural and political questions.
Selected writing sample from coursework in literature and rhetorical analysis will be added here.
Presentation & Public Communication
My literary writing often begins with close reading, but I am most interested in where that reading opens outward into broader questions about systems, power, vulnerability, and lived experience. Across response papers and longer analytical essays, I have worked to build arguments that stay grounded in textual detail while also connecting literature to larger cultural and political questions.
Materials that reflect my interest in making analytical work both rigorous and usable for public or classroom-facing audiences.