I am currently completing an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies (Japan) and Communication Studies at York University. On graduation, it is my hope to continue on in a Master’s program for Communications. I am fascinated by television in both theory and practice and would dearly love to have the opportunity to study it at a graduate level. My research interests are reality television, celebrity culture, and the influence the East has on western society through popular culture. I previously attended Brock University and the Centre for Creative Communications in Toronto.

Papers I Like:

• When Will I Be Famous?: Reality TV, Privacy and the Price of Celebrity  
• Workin’ Hard and Hardly Livin’: Technology, the Buying of Time and the Selling of Leisure  
• Buying the Perfect Bride: Critiquing Martha Stewart Weddings  
• Building a Better ‘Chick Flick’: Representations of Women in Film and Women in the Film Industry  
• Love and Marriage: The Male – Female Relationship in Tokugawa Japan

Awards:

• 2003 Division of Humanities Retirees' Award
• York University Undergrad Bursary - 2004, 2005