Scholarly Interests
I fundamentally believe that information should not be siloed. As such, my work seeks to break down disciplinary barriers where it is most productive to do so. By bringing together my academic background and my work experience, I seek to bring humanities methodologies out of their corners and into play with questions of technology and information consumption.
In the past, I have brought together disciplines within the humanities to shed new light on old material. In my Master’s thesis, I combined art historical frameworks for seeing with print culture studies theories of page design to open up new dimensions of understanding for two artists manifestos from 1920s Mexico and Brazil. By treating an object not typically understood in a formal analysis framework with that system, I was able to articulate new ways of thinking about the success of artists writings.
As I move forward, I am more and more interested in blurring not only disciplinary boundaries but popular and academic boundaries as well. My current work deals with the information conveyed socially on Instagram through the interplay of text and image. Both sources of content record information differently and I believe that has implications not only for how institutions message themselves but also for information literacy in a social media age.
I am also curious about questions of equity and information recording. I have been wrestling with issues of gender and knowledge presentation in catalog records over the course of my time in library school and hope to continue that course of thinking in a professional capacity. This work has important implications for privacy and gender diversity in our records and for information and communication technology more broadly.
In summary, my research interests deal with the barriers we put up between disciplines and how to productively break through them. Whether hybridizing two academic disciplines, the popular and the academic, or humanities and the technical, I hope to paint a more holistic understanding of the knowledge ecosystem both of today and of the future.
In the past, I have brought together disciplines within the humanities to shed new light on old material. In my Master’s thesis, I combined art historical frameworks for seeing with print culture studies theories of page design to open up new dimensions of understanding for two artists manifestos from 1920s Mexico and Brazil. By treating an object not typically understood in a formal analysis framework with that system, I was able to articulate new ways of thinking about the success of artists writings.
As I move forward, I am more and more interested in blurring not only disciplinary boundaries but popular and academic boundaries as well. My current work deals with the information conveyed socially on Instagram through the interplay of text and image. Both sources of content record information differently and I believe that has implications not only for how institutions message themselves but also for information literacy in a social media age.
I am also curious about questions of equity and information recording. I have been wrestling with issues of gender and knowledge presentation in catalog records over the course of my time in library school and hope to continue that course of thinking in a professional capacity. This work has important implications for privacy and gender diversity in our records and for information and communication technology more broadly.
In summary, my research interests deal with the barriers we put up between disciplines and how to productively break through them. Whether hybridizing two academic disciplines, the popular and the academic, or humanities and the technical, I hope to paint a more holistic understanding of the knowledge ecosystem both of today and of the future.
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