About My Research: 

My research interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy of Information and Library and Information Science. In my writing, I use post-structural and deconstructive theory to challenge foundational assumptions, deepen philosophical roots, and construct ethical scaffolding around questions of information. I am advised by Dr. Marija Dalbello.

In my dissertation, ”A Post-Structuralist Approach to Informational Being, Knowing, and Caring,” I establish a generative tension between Luciano Floridi’s structuralist approach to Philosophy of Information and Jacques Derrida’s post-structuralist theorizing. Central to this tension are themes of totalization; structuralist information theory establishes reality as the totality of information, while post-structuralism warns of a violence inherent to such totalitarianism. I use this tension as an entry point into information ontology, ultimately constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing my own post-structuralist ontology of information. This ontology contains within it epistemological commitments to unknowability. I then unpack these commitments, providing a further construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of unknowability and knowability in the context of information epistemology. I conclude my dissertation by turning to information ethics, arguing for the connectivity and importance of hospitality and privacy in navigating informational-being-in-the-world. This theoretical and philosophical dissertation disrupts foundations in philosophy of information, providing a post-structuralist and deconstructive alternative to what is traditionally considered a structuralist and constructionist field of study.