Scholarship

 

Education

University of California, San Diego Ph.D. in Theatre & Drama with a Specialization in Critical Gender Studies, awarded June 14, 2019

Hunter College, City University of New York

M.A. in Theatre Studies, 2013

Binghamton University  B.A. in Psychology and Theatre, 2003


Editorial work

TheatreForum International Theatre Journal

Lead Editor Issues 52 (Fall 2017) & 53 (Spring 2018) 

Managing Editor: Issues 49 (Fall 2016), 50 (Spring 2017) & 51 (Fall 2017) 

Assistant Editor, TheatreForum, Issues 44-48 2013-2016




Publications

Dissertation: “The Clothes Make the Man: Theatrical Crossdressing as Expression of Gender Fluidity in Seventeenth- through Nineteenth-Century Performance.”

“Victorian Gender Fluidity: Performativity and Reception in A Florida Enchantment and Non-Binary Gender in Gabriel” Victorian Review, Issue 44, No. 1 2018

TF Casebook: Transgender Performance, TheatreForum, Issue 52, 2017

“Finding Balance Through Community: Georgette Kelly’s Ballast,” TheatreForum, Issue 52, 2017

“Performance of Protest? Diana Oh’s {My Lingerie Play},” 

TheatreForum, Issue 49, 2016



Conference papers

“The Ciscentric Language of Crossdressing Scholarship.”  Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of San Diego, 2018

“Is Transgender Transhistorical?” In Motion: Performance and Unsettling Borders, Graduate Student Conference, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, 2018

“Challenging Perspectives on Annie Hindle.” Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of San Diego, 2017

“’Is She He?’ Contemporaneous and Contemporary Perspectives on Annie Hindle.” Transfeminisms working group, American Society for Theatre Research, Atlanta 2017

“19th Century Proto-Trans Representations.” Transfeminisms working group, American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, 2016

“Female Masculinity in English Restoration Comedy.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Portland, 2015

“Troubling Gender in Restoration Comedy.” Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, 2015

“Nothing to Do with Aristophanes? Probing the Connection between Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and Euripides’ The Bacchae.” Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, 2013