Portfolio
Museums and their Publics: Reconciling a History of Exclusion
An important factor in the success of museums today is its relevance—or lack thereof—to the “public.” With the rise of the museum has come the rise of the notion of democratic institutions, spaces that are both by and for the people, spaces that allow them to confront, debate and experiment with the world.
The Epic and Sublime: Modern Receptions of Pompeii
Modern portrayals of Pompeii go beyond that of the epic myth and turn into the sublime, combining the right amount of terror to transfix its audience with an added element of distance to turn it into aesthetic fascination.
Metatheater in Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”
Uncovering a model of performativity; without the constant performance of these heroic figures, a loss of audience interest will bring the one thing a story is powerless against—oblivion.
Choice and (In)Action in Two Time Travel Narratives
There are three versions of time travel most often used in science fiction—fixed timeline, dynamic timeline, and multi-verse timeline. This work looks at two works of science fiction and how they integrate fixed and dynamic timelines in their time travel narratives.
Postcolonial Art: Reclaiming Old Narratives and Creating New Ones
With decolonization efforts have risen new narratives, ones that come from the colonized and not just the colonizer, showing that there is more than just one side to a story, and opening up more possibilities for artists belonging to this group to explore what exactly it means to take back and control the narrative that has been cast upon them for so long.