Career Highlights
The list below contains articles and reports about some of her favorite writings and projects that Martindale has been a part of.
The Search Bar: An Information Literacy Podcast by IU Libraries
As part of my 2025-2026 Jay Information Literacy Fellowship, I created, write for and host an information literacy podcast titled "The Search Bar." This series comprises interviews with IU librarians about different facets of the research process, and shares valuable advice for students directly from the experts.

Seeing with Words: An Intern's Introduction to Accessible Infographics
The culminating project of my time as a summer 2025 intern for Library Futures. This blog post explores my research on creating accessible infographics and offers advice for graphic designers who want to pursue similar goals of accessibility.

Comic Book Paratexts Database
As a graduate research assistant for Dr. John Walsh (Indiana University), I selected relevant literary details and created metadata for inclusion in this public database about the history of comic book paratexts.
Dr. Herman "Butch" Hill National Graduate Fellowship
In 2022, I was one of 28 recipients of a graduate fellowship from the Alpha Lambda Delta Society for First Year Success. This media release further details the fellowship and the history of its namesake, Dr. Herman Hill.

The Lytle Family Papers Collection
As part of my work for Miami University Special Collections in 2023, I created a finding aid and organizational plan for the Lytle Family Papers. This collection contains the materials of Virginius Cornick Hall, a descendant of Captain William Lytle and General William Haines Lytle, and chronicles his family ancestry, as well as Hall's own history as a historian and librarian. This blog post summarizes my findings and the benefits the collection offers Miami University researchers.
2022 University Libraries Student Expo Winners
This article details the work of the winners of the Library Awards at the 2022 Ohio University Student Research Expo. These awards are given to students who conduct outstanding research that utilizes the resources of Ohio University Libraries. I won first place in the undergraduate category for my work on disability in Charlotte Bronte's Villette for my senior thesis.
"Maternal Connection and Paternal Dysfunction: Empathy in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
In this essay I argue that Mrs. Dalloway presents an English society in which male authority figures such as Richard Dalloway and Sir William Bradshaw perpetuate ableist ideals, and the opposing maternal and social values of the protagonist Clarissa Dalloway allow her to confront and reject these ideals in the climax of the novel, when she has her revelation about Septimus Smith. It was published in the 2022 Sigma Tau Delta Review, a national literary journal.

“'As Much As I Ever Expected': The Servant Perspective in Jane Eyre"
I wrote this article for presentation at John Hopkins University’s Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium in April 2021, and then submitted it for the conference’s corresponding journal. The article includes an analysis of the viewpoint of servants in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and the servants’ relationship to the titular heroine.



