Sports writer Publications
During my time at Wesleyan, I published several articles for the Wesleyan University Alumni Magazine and Athletics Website. For each article, I was responsible for scheduling, interviewing, drafting, and editing. In one profile, I talked to Clara Ambrose, pictured to the left, who had recently been named to the USA Field Hockey Women’s Masters Over-45 Squad.
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Wesleyan University: An “Elite” Institution?
Originally written for a course I took on Sociological Analysis, this piece questions the word “elite” in college and university jargon and analyzes college ranking systems to determine what makes an “elite university.”
Tears Over Tombstones
This paper analyzes Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson alongside the infamous JonBenét Ramsey murder case. Originally published in 1794, Charlotte Temple was described as “America’s First Bestseller” and is a classic example of eighteenth-century sentimentalism. Charlotte, the fictional protagonist of the novel, faced seduction, poverty, and distress throughout her life until she died tragically. The public response to her arguably fictionalized character was so great that it caused readers to mourn over her real gravestone, a tomb that mysteriously appeared in Trinity Churchyard. I argue this is because throughout the book, Rowson consistently models what I call “sentimental ethics,” and this set a basis for the eighteenth-century community for sympathy and mourning. I relate this more broadly to Dark Tourism, or travel to somewhere historically associated with death or tragedy. This was originally written for an English course entitled “What Was the Public Sphere?”
Charlotte Temple’s tombstone in Trinity Churchyard