WRITING SAMPLES
A critical essay weaving together firsthand reporting, research, and visual analysis to examine Albert Scopin’s images of the Hotel Chelsea visually preserve the pre-AIDS queer culture that once thrived in downtown New York.
A close analysis of colonial photographs that demonstrates how photography can and has functioned as both a means of liberation as well as a form of imprisonment that reinforces racial and sexual violence.
A comparative study of the Mond Crucifixion and Wilton Diptych that examines how architecture, lighting, ritual, and museum display shape the meaning of artworks.
An interdisciplinary analysis of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s sculpture of Mary Turner that engages competing scholarly perspectives to examine the struggle to represent historical violence without reproducing it.