Welcome to my writing portfolio!

Below is a selection of written pieces I’ve done over the years. Some of these are academic, research-oriented works—others are more creative, or interview-style from publications, or personal essays and think-pieces.

I’ve organized them into a sort of “spine” for navigation; each rectangular tile contains the general topic of each selection and to the right is the corresponding title. All you have to do is click the topic tile of your choice and the written piece will pop up in a new window.

Enjoy perusing!

—W.G.



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Artificial Intelligence
K-Pop
Little Bowls
Studio Ghibli
Cuban Sustainability
Influencers
Critical Race Theory and Language
Santería
The Japanese Film
Wearing Black















“Creating the Creator: A.I. and A New World”

“The Ardor of Abundance”

Digital Bath: The Triple Threat of Algorithms, Infrastructures, and Platforms”

“Heavenly Algorithm, Bless Me With a Soul”

“Essay: On Critical Race Theory and Language”

“Ecological Comraderie in Cuba”

“In Front of Closed Eyes: The Invisibility of Indigenous People”

“Are Influencers People Too? On Agency, Culture, and the Study Thereof”

“Flower and Iron: Gendering K-Pop Idols”

“To Every Bowl I’ve Ever Owned and Never Used for Food”

“Another Way of Seeing, Another Way of Being: A Page of Madness, the Moving Image, Incarceration, and Determination”

“Faith and Retribution”

“World Fantasy: The Global Success of Studio Ghibli”

“Shukan: What is the Japanese-Film?”

“I Think I Might Have Been In Mourning”

Indigenous American Students
Phantasmagoria
Abundance
Algorithms
Algorithms and Identity Formation