Writer. Building things in public, one essay at a time. Currently mapping out The Braided Reading EPUB — a 5-year integrated MA+PhD curriculum across Communication, AI, Intellectual Property Law, and Social Equity, braided together with a 1,200-book annotated bibliography.
This is the complete reading plan for the program — every book, every paper, every extracurricular work — organized by semester below, in program order. See the full bibliography ↗
Pre-program
Jul 6 – Aug 21, 2026 · 4 courses
Orientation: legal reasoning, AI literacy, comm theory, scholarly writing
MA Year 1 · Fall 2026
Aug 31 – Dec 18, 2026 · 5 courses
Disciplinary foundations across the four pillars
MA Year 1 · Spring 2027
Jan 18 – May 14, 2027 · 5 courses
Sharpening the lenses: rhetoric, copyright, AI ethics, race & technology
Summer Bridge 2027
Jun 1 – Aug 13, 2027 · 2 courses
Generative AI × copyright; technical AI for policy thinkers
MA Year 2 · Fall 2027
Aug 30 – Dec 17, 2027 · 5 courses
STS, patents, platform governance, critical race & technology
MA Year 2 · Spring 2028
Jan 17 – May 12, 2028 · 6 courses
Surveillance, trademark, AI policy, GenAI & creative production, MA thesis
PhD Year 1 · Fall 2028
Aug 28 – Dec 15, 2028 · 10 courses
Doctoral-level theory + research methods + integration seminars + comp-list build
PhD Year 1 · Spring 2029
Jan 15 – May 11, 2029 · 7 courses
Political economy, international IP, trade secrets, comp-exam prep
PhD Year 2 · Fall 2029
Aug 27 – Dec 14, 2029 · 3 courses
Special field exam + prospectus defense; methods chapter drafted
PhD Year 2 · Spring 2030
Jan 14 – May 10, 2030 · 2 courses
Body chapters drafted; in-program defense
PhD Year 3 · Fall 2030
Aug 26 – Dec 13, 2030 · 4 courses
AI labor & creative economies, disability & sociotechnical justice, frontier AI/IP
PhD Year 3 · Spring 2031
Jan 13 – May 9, 2031 · 4 courses
Global tech justice, comparative IP, AI auditing & civil rights, defense prep