Research Interests
RESEARCH INTERESTS
SUBJECT MATTER
I study narratives, stories, and discourses as they relate to conflict transformation.
I am currently researching the following as sites of narrative transformation:
Music (incl. punk rock, folk, folk rock)
Literary craft (e.g., craft essays)
Worldbuilding (both as literary technique and conflict transformation practice)
My ongoing projects include the following:
“Building Muslim and Non-Muslim Songworlds in the Post-9/11 Era” (dissertation, in progress)
“Imagining Democracy’s Future: The Speculative Democracy Workshops” (with Thomas Flores, working paper, in progress)
THEORY
I primarily take the following theoretical approaches to the study of conflict transformation:
Narrative approaches (incl. literary studies)
Music and sound studies
Affect theory
Phenomenology
METHODOLOGY
I primarily use the following methodologies in my work:
Narrative analysis
Worldbuilding workshops
Critical discourse analysis
Thematic analysis
Arts-based inquiry
