I am a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design at Clemson University. My research examines alterity, biopolitics, and risk in mid-century American television, with a particular focus on Western series such as Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and Wagon Train.
My work explores how these programs function as communication systems that organize power, labor, and identity. Rather than centering the heroic figure, I am especially interested in supporting characters, ensemble performance, and the everyday practices that sustain social order within these narratives.
Drawing on rhetorical theory and interdisciplinary frameworks, I analyze how media constructs and circulates cultural myths of authority, belonging, and exclusion. More broadly, my research considers how seemingly familiar genres reveal deeper structures of governance, risk, and social organization.
Alterity, biopolitics, political economy, risk, and the American myth in media.
The Atlanta Braves, mid-century Westerns and classic television, the music of David Bowie, Janis Joplin, and Bon Jovi, as well as classical music and astronomy
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