Digital Media
I have had the opportunity, through online academic outreach and through my administrative intern role at my local dance studio, to create and distribute important media online. Using social media platforms for education and outreach is important, regardless of the field, and while not within major or future career field, learning these skills are helpful for the future. I have also created visual aids and written posts for my undergraduate peers.
Interdisciplinarity
In the last year, as my course subjects became more specialized, they also became more connected. My courses in English literature involved the historical events that determined the mindsets of authors and readers. My History courses involved prominent figures that masterfully employed meticulously crafted rhetoric for the mass mobilization of hearts and minds, for good and evil. Both disciplines started to discuss the evolution of medicine, scientific racism, and most surprisingly, the philosophy and ethics of what people should do, as we continually push what we can do. While I was aware that people are complicated, that History and English naturally reflect the best and worst of human nature through their preservation of thought and action, each of my courses has discussed this subject at length.
This web of ‘why’ and ‘how’ of human actions led me to the selection of my HONR 300 course this semester: the Rhetoric of Darwinism, tandem taught by the English and Biology departments. This course establishes scientific and historical understanding of Darwin’s contributions to evolutionary theory and genetics, but also analyzes how these ideas have been interpreted, expanded, and misused in various cultural and political contexts. While deeply historical and scientific, we’ve examined rhetorical responses to Darwin’s work across time (including religious, popular, and scientific voices) and we’ve investigated how biological theories have been used to justify deeply problematic ideologies. This course has fed a secondary material interest of mine, leading to my declaration of a Medical and Health Humanities minor in my senior year. This course is a single example of how my education has been woven together through the liberal arts experience and my personal interdisciplinary research interests. Whenever I have desired to learn more, expand into another region of study, or add another major or minor, I have found only encouragement and assistance from my professors, departments, and the administration that I have encountered. Interdisciplinary studies have allowed me to examine human nature and expand my mind on academic, spiritual, and social levels that certainly prepare me for graduate school and my forthcoming career.
College of Arts & Science Deans' Newsletter Post
November 13, 2025
Social Media & Administrative Intern
From age 3 onward, I was a student of 1st Steps to Broadway School of Dance. When I was a junior in high school, I was employed as an administrative and social media intern. While in town (away from college), I help teach classes in a variety of dance styles, create schedules, transfer client contact information into the streamlined systems, and consistently interact with students and their parents regarding studio matters.
While at school (hours away from the studio), I send the push notifications and social media posts on the Parents Page group of the studio's Facebook platform. On a weekly and monthly basis, I post about upcoming studio events and requirements of students.
Student Involvement
These three posters/infographics were created to present research information online towards my Xavier University peers.
The infographic regarding Somalia was based on a six-week period of analyzing recent African newspapers.
The Literature project was created to push back against the potentially racist and/or classist views people hold towards classifying literature. This project sought to explain the facets of Literature versus practices like fanfiction, who chooses to raise writing about others, and what genres are likely to be taken seriously.
The National Unity project was created to show similar rhetoric in Home Front propaganda, despite opposing regimes and ideologies distributing war-supporting propaganda.
