Hi! My name is Evelyn, and I am a Library Desktop Technician at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Education

I completed a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in May 2024. I graduated Summa Cum Laude, and completed a thesis in the Honors College.

The Unecessary Details

My thesis was completed outside of my major, in My University's School of Media and Communications.The title, "Groomer Discourse: A Transgender-sensitive Critical Discourse Analysis of Queerphobic Hate Speech on Twitter" is a bit of a misnomer, as I was going into the research process without much prior experience in Communications research (beyond a Political Communications class I took in Honors, and a brief stint working asan undergraduate research assistant). To put in the words of the infamous Reviewer 2 who reviewed this paper for SCAA 2025 in Norfolk, Virginia...

"At some points throughout the manuscript, however, the authors call their work "rhetorical analysis" and even go so far as to cite Burke (which I don't think adds much, by the way). I think the authors need to decide whether this is a discourse analysis or a rhetorical analysis. There are major methodological differences between the two fields and I think choosing one or the other would allow them to clarify their intervention."

I do not mean to say that my research is entirely without merit! But what it essentially boils down to is this: I get to read transphobic tweets, categorize them, and then make charts that visualize my categorizations.