“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Full Title: “Die Neue Nationalgalerie: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Literary Museum”
Conference: Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
First Presented: February 27, 2015
This paper analyzes the configuration of space and time in the T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in order to argue that Eliot modeled the poem, with its artifact collection of cultural fragmentation, on structure and space of the British museum.
Full Title: “Das ewig Weibliche: Temporality in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts”
Conference: 14th Annual Conference of the Modern Studies Association (MSA 14)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
First Presented: October 18, 2012
This paper examines Virginia Woolf’s presentation of time in her last novel, Between the Acts in order to better understand how she deals with the limitations of the novel as a medium, as well as stream-of-consciousness as a narrative device, in illustrating the passage of time.
Full Title: “Manipulating Manipulative: Hypertextuality in Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”
Conference: International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA)
Location: Orlando, FL
First Presented: March 18, 2011
This paper examines the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer within Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age and considers how it manipulates and is manipulated by Nell.
Full Title: “Neo-Mythos: Folklore and Subversion in Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer”
Conference: Far West Popular Culture Association (FWPCA/ACA)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
First Presented: March 12, 2011
This paper examines whether Nell functions as a subversive agent within Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age or if she is little more than an indoctrinated puppet like her namesake in Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop.
Full Title: “Halo: Combat Evolved on the Feminine and Fertility in Video Games”
Conference: Far West Popular Culture Association (FWPCA/ACA)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
First Presented: March 14, 2010
This paper briefly examines the underlying parasitic representation of nature and its connection to the subjugation of women within the early Halo series.
Full Title: “Visually Persuasive Enculturation: An analysis of gender roles in Shōjo and Shōnen manga”
Conference: Far West Popular Culture Association (FWPCA/ACA)
Location: Las Vegas, NV
First First Presented: March 15, 2009
This paper examines the prescribed gender roles conveyed through the visual and textual components of Yuu Watase’s Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden and Ken Akamatsu’s Negima! Magister Negi Magi.