Scholarship
From the Templon to the Web
This study of Russian Orthodox iconography is my final project for MATX 601 Text and Textuality course. This study addresses the issues on authorship, medium, heteroglossia and simulation in iconography. This website was made in Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash.
Growing at the Crossings of Disciplines:
ESL as a Field Built on Intersectional Work
This project explores the issues of interdisciplinarity and intersections in the disciplines. It defines English as a Second Language Teaching as an intersectional field based on its collaboration with the disciplines of psychology, cultural studies, political science, statistics, linguistics, literature, and many others. This is my final project in MATX 603 Multimedia and Interdisciplinarity course.
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Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Analysis
of “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
This project applies psychoanalytic and archetypal methods of literary criticism to "Rip Van Winke." I read this work for the first time in my Literary Criticism course and was fascinated by the multiple layers of archetypes it offered.
Edna’s Home and Homelessness:
A Feminist and an Archetypal Interpretation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
This project is the final essay for my Literary Criticism course. It is a product of multiple readings of Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
The two main literary criticism methods used in this essay are the feminist and the archetypal approaches to text analysis.
The Dilemma of CSS encoding
This essay discusses ethical issues of using CSS (Content Scrambling System). It paper addresses the questions of copyright, ownership, and appropriation of DVDs.
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