Paige Martins
Master's Student
Department
Biography
Paige Martins is a M.A. student in English at Boston College. They completed their B.A. at Rhode Island College in 2026 in English Creative Writing and Educational Studies. Paige's interests are still being explored and developed, however they center on science fiction and traditional horror genre fiction, as well as contemporary theory. Currently, they are using their M.A. to explore different literary texts' figurations of feminism, gender, transness, and the nonhuman. They have presented their conference papers, “Female Catharsis Within Puritan Theology: Analyzing the Salem Witch Trials with Psychoanalysis and Empathy,” “Positive Nihilism: A Lacanian Analysis of ‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,’” and "Monstrosity in Arthurian Literature: Domination as Demonstrated by Medieval Monsters." Additionally, within their undergraduate career they have multiple published creative works through the literary magazine Shoreline.