Heartmouth— my Substack newsletter, a project in intimacy, autofiction, desire, and gender-unease. Free + paid subscriptions available (for a very low cost!). Mini lyric essays and fiction pieces.
FEATURED LINKS
“The Horror of Gender: Sof Sears’ Stories About Society” — profile/interview, 34th Street Magazine, 2023
L. Barry Pick Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis Recipient — UPenn English Department, 2023
“Workshop Production of Undergraduate Major’s Play I Know the End” — UPenn GSWS Department, 2023 (produced by Ricardo Bracho)
Medium’s ‘The Edge of Adulthood’ - featured interview
FEATURED PROJECTS
"Unseamly Girlhoods: Restitching Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman With Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl.” — 2023, English Honors Thesis, completed over the course of a year at UPenn, directed by Dr. Whitney Trettien. Please reach out for a link—I have both a PDF version and my experimental digital humanities* project! This thesis was awarded the annual departmental prize.
“Hangsawoman” — 2023, Gender & Sexuality Studies Honors Thesis, completed over the course of a year at UPenn, advised by Ricardo Bracho. A critical-creative, experimental, hypertext-lit/autofiction/auto-theory project (about girlhood, trauma, disappearance, narratology, ft Ethel Cain…) you can access here. This project was also awarded the GSWS departmental thesis prize.
“Hauntologies” — a digital, speculative “archive” (critical-creative) inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s notion of the speculative, and repurposing Derrida’s “hauntology” as queer theory and experience.
“Unwomen: The Monstrous-Feminine in American Pop Culture” — A digital hybrid archive-creative-work exploring the monstrous-feminine and all its intersections, created for an English seminar. Spring 2020.
Archer Literary Conference “Lit&” 2017-2018: Call Me By Your Name, Giovanni’s Room, and Queerness as Coming-of-Age
I was selected to present on an essay I wrote about James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, and proceeded to give a talk on American coming-of-age stories through the lens of queerness, estrangement, and privilege.
A compendium of student work centered around mental health. Featured at the Los Angeles Zine Fest 2017.
A short podcast written and produced by me, focusing on environmental sustainability and feminism on the Crossroads School Campus.