Brief Biography
Research and Teaching Fields
20th-Century Drama/Theatre/Performance (American, European, British), 20th-Century American and World Literature, Early Modern Drama/Theatre (especially Shakespeare), Performance Theory, Dramatic Criticism, Directing/Acting (Viewpoints/Composition, Commedia)
Education
Ph.D. in English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2008 (Major field of study: Drama in English)
M.A. in English, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2004
B.A. in English/B.A. in Theater (Cum Laude), Columbia University, New York, NY, 1993
Employment History
Former Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Downtown, 2009-2010
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 2008-2009
Professional Writing Experience
Managing Editor, Back Stage West, Los Angeles, CA, 1998-2003
Writer, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, CA, 1996-1997
Copy Editor, Back Stage, New York, NY, 1995-1996
Assistant Editor, Town Brook Press (div. of Marvel Comics), New York, NY, 1994-1995
Administrator/Grant Writer, Irondale Ensemble Project, New York, NY, 1994-1995
Courses Taught
Elon University
"Modern Drama," Fall 2011
"Advanced World Literature: Post-Colonialism," Fall 2011
“20th-Century American Drama: Realism,” Fall 2010
“American Literature II: Archetypes and Invisibles,” Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
“College Writing,” Fall 2010 and Spring 2011
University of Houston-Downtown
“Studies in Drama: Theatre and Other Worlds,” Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
“American Literature After 1865,” Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
“Composition I,” Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
Northwestern University
“Introductory Seminar in Reading and Interpretation,” Fall 2008
“The Comedy of Manners: Restoration, Wilde, Orton, and LaBute,” Fall 2008
“Theatre of the Absurd,” Winter 2009, Spring 2009
“Revenge Tragedy: Medea Through Carrie,” Winter 2009
“Virtue in Vice: The Morality Play’s Impact on Renaissance Drama,” Summer 2009
“20th-Century American Drama: Challenging Authority,” Winter 2007
Presentations
Conference Papers
“Framework for Change: How the SITI Company Recomposed the L.A. Theatre Landscape,” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference working group, the History of Collective Creation, Seattle, WA, 2010
“Hard Feelings: The Living Theatre’s Move From Empathy to Insult,” ASTR Conference working session, Unsettling Intentions: Activism and the Limits of Empathy, Boston, MA, 2008
“Less Talk-Back, More Action: Audience Participation in Cornerstone Theater Company’s Zones,” (How) Does Activist Performance Work? seminar, ASTR Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 2007
“Conversations With the Audience: BOTHarts’ Dreamplay and Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” Collaborative Creation as Modeled Community seminar, ASTR Conference, Chicago, IL, 2006
“Copy as Original: Miriam Walsh’s Playbill Portraits,” Feminist Historiography Research Group, ASTR Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2005
“Imagining Past Heterosexuality: Mainstream (Mis)Readings of Lesbian Performance,” Vanguard Sex seminar, ASTR Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2004
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