A mini-essay, a curated bibliography, and an annotated bibliography-a bibliovignette weaves together ideas, sources, and personal insights into something concise yet meaningful. Its backed by thoughtful research, carefully chosen references, and inquisitive writing. Its how I address learning new topics and creating [uncovering] connections between disciplines.

I use this format because I want something that allows me to explore topics without feeling bound by traditional bibliographic constraints. Bibliovignettes are explorations and thought wanderings. They aim to spark the curiosity that is within all of us, encouraging exploration, critical thinking, and allowing the mind to explore without constraint. Too often we are told to “stay focused” on a task. Well, I encourage you to be unfocused and see what you might uncover. Through demonstration, I aim to show others to allow their minds to go without impeding it, and instead embrace it.

Bibliovignettes include carefully selected popular sources, academic sources, essays, any other relevant format to the topic, as well as influences beyond the immediate discipline of the bibliovignette, offering quality sources in a small selection of varying directions. When choosing citations, I use citation metrics and a dozen or so other sources where real readers and scholars discuss materials, also using literature databases and indexes to gather relevant statistics, ensuring a well-rounded and insightful bibliovignette. And finally, although I do use statistics and personal opinions of others to choose citations, selections are primarily driven by reading interesting sources that I personally enjoy.