https://www.ripleystark.com/research daily 0.75 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/035e551c-94c6-4503-8970-33fc9315ed9a/wbn-big-banner.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/f9f74764-6223-479e-84ac-37e44be18a8e/Screenshot+2026-03-27+235530.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/3f52c76c-2f1c-40cd-8988-19be2d4476ae/Screenshot+2026-03-27+233220.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601784720354-P1YXIE71G3XWWHMRVBKK/IMG_0126.jpg Research - Representations of Queerness in Culturally Progressive Video Games (Spring 2017, UCLA) Drawing from feminist and queer film theory, I analyze the representation of LGBTQA+ roleplay and romance programming developed by Bioware, explicating ambivalent recognition and erasure of bisexuality and transgenderism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601787174053-ACAJUZEIJ787W90GMBRV/101912302_s.jpg Research - Fightaturgy and Fatal Awkwardness: How the Cultural Norm of Safety Facilitates Physical Storytelling in Stage Combat (Spring 2020, NYU) Citing stage combat theorists and practitioners, this paper looks at the concept of ‘fightaturgy’, or fight dramaturgy, and the values transmitted through stage combat training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601100229717-YP07BFZ7F2DX5FW4D1SR/9107nQIqoEL._RI_.jpg Research - Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom and Affection as a Mechanism of Transnational Cultural Production (Winter 2017, UCLA) This paper analyzes the influence of the first mainstream anime with a gay romance and its international fandom culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601788014725-T1XZX6SO7X62GEYIP045/play+spectrum.jpg Research - The Play Spectrum of Martial Arts (Fall 2019, NYU) Looking at kenjutsu, boxing and capoeira through bushido and theorists O’Shea and Downey to examine the multiple types of play explicated in Huizinga’s writings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601099192847-WJ57ZVKWJ2N9BRW21PTV/55759548_s.jpg Research - Habit Formation as Marked Ritual (Fall 2019, NYU) Habits are situated inconsistently across performance theorists’ taxonomies of ritual, play and performance. Below I briefly outline a selection of references to habit within the theories of Richard Schechner, Roy Rappaport, John L. Lewis, Ian Maxwell and Victor Turner with the aim of supplementing and contrasting them with habit formation research from neuroscience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601790702985-7RRY9YWTWYLTSWFWZV1K/Stuntwomen-The-Untold-Hollywood-Story-2020.jpg Research - Stuntwomen (Fall 2019, NYU) A draft proposal for an ethnographic study of the corporeal and cultural production of gender identity, violence, toughness and resiliency in stunt training and performance. My dissertation has since shifted to game design, but I am still interested in the narrative aspect of fight choreography in stage combat and stunt work as it can be applied to combat game design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601787946739-FB42MR3865UFZXI9E5DR/112260374_s.jpg Research - Stanislavsky’s Lost Prana (2017, UCLA) A historiographic exploration of the cultural and editorial factors that resulted in disrupted the transmission of holistic yoga in the foundations of modern American acting pedagogy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601793404439-7JXN14Q6R4G8ULZPMR9A/delsarte.jpg Research - Delsarte and Somatic Trauma (Spring 2020, NYU) A comparison between Francois Delsarte’s Applied Aesthetics and theories of biomechanical postural effects of trauma, specifically Paul Linden’s Winning is Healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6a615a372c2b6dacc1be6e/1601792330797-Z7GVHJD5BB67UXWN21UW/150800701_s.jpg Research - Martial Arts as a Somatic Healing Modality for Adolescents That Have Experienced Childhood Trauma (2010, Lesley University) A review of case studies where martial arts were used to treat teenagers with PTSD. 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