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Hello

I specialize in critical and cultural studies of digital communities and media practices at the crossroads of technology, society and identity, particularly within fandom, gender and sexuality.

My research examines how fans participate, socialize, and nurture intimacies in algorithmically governed media environments, with a strong emphasis on feminist and queer perspectives. I am currently researching algorithmic intimacies in AI-mediated fan practices through computational and qualitative approaches.

Alongside my research, I am also an avid programmer and creative practitioner committed to designing accessible and interactive interfaces of scholarly communication.

This is a directory of my learnings and experiments.

Selected Works
01 / Academic Scholarship

Academic theses, conference presentations, and research articles exploring the intersections of digital cultures, fan culture, and emerging AI relationships.

02 / Web Design & Development

Designed and developed responsive, interactive web experiences using modern front-end technologies for academic and creative projects.

03 / Data Analysis & AI/ML/NLP

Computational approaches to examine audience reception, fan practices, and gendered representations in digital and cultural texts.

04 / Interactive & Visual Storytelling

Experiential projects in interactive, visual, and intermedial storytelling.

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Game Development
The Alvenhime Assassin (Interactive Visual Novel Game)

A DnD inspired whodunit detective mystery game created in Ren'py with MySQL backend.

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Interactive Mapping
Then & Now Antwerp in Postcards

Juxtaposes historical landmarks with present-day views to showcase the iconicity of Antwerp.

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Visual Art
The Sea Sings at Night (Illustrative Adaptation)

This flipbook is an illustrated and poetic reworking of Mimi Mondal's speculative fiction short story.

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Exhibition Documentation
The Hands-On Story

This illustrative audiovisual narrative contemplates the relationship between nature and human intimacy.

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DH Project
Boy Meets Girl Meets NLP: Binary Text Classification of RomCom Movies

Applied NLP techniques, including Naive Bayes (BOW/TF-IDF) and DistilBERT, to predict romcom genre from movie synposis.

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DH Project
Intimatopias in BTS Hurt/Comfort Fanfiction Tags: Corpus-Based Keyword Analysis

Gendered roles and tropes in BTS Hurt/Comfort fanfiction using corpus linguistic keyword analysis of fanfiction tags.

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DH Project
Unboxing Letterboxd: Analyzing Audience Perception of the Female Gaze in Women-Directed Films

Built a data preprocessing pipeline for Letterboxd dataset for text analysis.

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DH Project
All the Metadata's a Stage: Text Mining and Network Analysis of 17th–19th Century British Comedy Titles

Built a data preprocessing pipeline for the British Library bibliographic dataset, & text mining and network analysis of drama titles.

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Web Development
Team PostScript, KU Leuven BiblioTech Hackathon Website

An Interactive Visual Archive of Belgian Postcards.

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Web Development
Artist Website (DMW Gallery)

Built a website for a gallery artist using WordPress CMS with a custom frontend.

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Web Development
DMW Gallery Website

Website upkeep and customized exhibitions and art fair pages using Wordpress Elementor.

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Web Development
Personal Website

This portfolio is also a web development and design project in itself.

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MSc Thesis
Do Character Bots Dream of Fanfiction?: Algorithmic Intimacies and the Synthetic AfterLives of BTS Self-Insert Fanfiction

Ongoing MSc Thesis.

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MA Thesis
Archivist of 'Feels': Web Weaving as a Fragmentary Reading Practice in Platformized Fan Culture

This study examines Tumblr as a platformed archive of feelings and web weaving as an affective fan reading practice.

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Conference Presentation
Fans of Fandom: Platformed Fan Identity in the Goncharov Phenomenon

A qualitative study of the Goncharov phenomenon that asks what are fans fan of in today's platformized digital fan culture?

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Published Article
The (Male) Gaze of Shadows: Inner Lives of Women in Works of Ismat Chughtai and Amrita Sher-Gil

This article analyzes how Ismat Chughtai's short stories and Amrita Sher-Gil's paintings engage with the concept of the male gaze.

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If you’d like to discuss my work, explore collaborations, talk about fan communities or swap notes on contemporary digital media cultures, I’m always happy to connect.

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