Writing
Learning has always been a choice
My chapel talk about being a terrible high school cellist, and why the rise of AI makes the choice to learn even more important.
The Steppe and the Sea: Nature in Chekhov
In this paper, I examine how Chekhov's natural landscapes—from across his career as a writer—use recurring webs of motifs to raise existential questions about whether the universe is sympathetic and communicative or indifferent and empty.
Very Remarkable Men: Villains and Victorian Doubt in Robert Louis Stevenson
In this thesis, I examine how Robert Louis Stevenson's most enduring villains—Long John Silver and Mr. Hyde—function as embodiments of Victorian doubt and the terrifying specter of an empty, materialist universe. Both figures are invested with such sublime mystery that no conventional ending could dispel their power.
Stranger to the House
An immersive photo essay on photography's artistic value and vulgarity, using Proust's In Search of Lost Time as a lens. Capstone project for Bread Loaf's Advanced Writing Tutorial.
My Year at ALA
A collection of emails home from my gap year at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. Written at 18, rereading them has been a fairly mortifying experience.
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