Significant Coursework: York University Communication and Culture MA Program, 2006-2007

Something in Common: Marilyn and The Merm as a Butch-Femme Pairing in There's No Business Like Show Business (pdf) was written for the course Core Issues in Communication and Culture taught by Professor Lorraine Jantzen Kooistra in 2006. This paper includes a literature review of camp scholarship and uses gender theory and queer theory to build a queer interpretation of the performances of Marilyn Monroe and Ethel Merman in the musical film There's No Business Like Show Business.

Do Androids Dream of Virtual Museums? (pdf) is a research paper created for an MA directed reading supervised by Professor Caitlin Fisher in 2006. This paper includes a content analysis of data from email and phone interviews with museum curators regarding current museums' uses of web 2.0 technologies.

Fakes (pdf) is a research paper created for the MA course Theories of Media and Culture taught by Professor Janine Marchessault in 2006. This paper examines the role of authenticity in media and culture through the Irving/Hughes literary scandal of the 1970s and the contemporary James Frey memoir scandal.