Welcome! I am a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Rhetoric, Media, and Publics at Northwestern University. Broadly, my research examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, media, political discourse, and democratic culture, with a particular interest in how contemporary populist rhetoric shapes gendered citizenship and the integrity of liberal democratic institutions.

My dissertation examines feminist responses to right-wing populist attacks on “gender ideology,” with a particular focus on how post-communist transformations in Poland have reshaped liberal democratic imaginaries, influenced conceptualizations of feminist solidarity, and prompted the emergent role of collective creativity in counterpublic discourse. Drawing on archival research, modes of cultural analysis, and transnational feminist theory, her work explores the affective and rhetorical strategies through which feminist and queer communities contest reactionary narratives around gender and sexuality.

My interests include: gender politics, democratic discourse, anti-gender movements, feminist and queer theory, media and popular culture, affect and political emotion, nationalism and populism, public sphere and counterpublic theory, post-socialist politics, transnational feminism, cultural memory, and rhetorical analysis.