Contact Information
EB 240
Office Hours
Fall 2023, Monday 2-4pm
PhD Candidate-Literary Studies
Research Interests
Early Modern and Restoration Theater; Theater Historiography; Women's and Gender Studies; Transgender and Queer Studies; Adaptation Studies; Reception History; Performance Theory; Affect Theory
Education
M.A. English Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A. English Literature, Wellesley College
Awards and Honors
- Ruth Schurman Brookens Teaching Award
- English Department Undergraduate Teaching Award
Courses Taught
Instructor of Record:
- Informatics 303: Writing Across Media-Materiality, Performance, & Interactivity
- English 218: Intro to Shakespeare-Performance
- English 204: Renaissance Lit & Culture-Rebirth, Transformation, & Legacy
- English 109: Intro to Fiction-Literary Metamorphoses: Adapting Premodern Europe
- English 218: Intro to Shakespeare-History & Culture
- English 120: Intro to Science Fiction-Speculative Fiction & Literary Efficacy
- Rhetoric 105: Research and Writing (Composition)
Co-Teacher:
- English 428: Restoration Drama
Teaching Assistant:
- English 209: British Literature Survey-Beginnings to 1800
Additional Campus Affiliations
EGSA Library Committee
Early Modern Workshop
IPRH Theatre Table Reading Group
Graduate Employees' Organization IFT/AFT Local 6300
Shakespearean Dramaturgy; Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Director: Matthew Arbour, Illinois Theater
Recent Publications
- “Shakespeare in Snippets: Ballads, Plays, and Performances of Remediation.” Collaboration with Lori Humphrey Newcomb, et al. Ballads and Performance: The Multi-Modal Theatricality of the Early Modern Stage, edited by Patricia Fumerton, EMC Imprint.
- “Confessions of Richard Plantagenet: The Gift Theatre’s Richard III,” & “Improv[ed] Shakespeare: The iO Theatre’s ISC.” Reviews. Shakespeare 400 Chicago: Reflections on a City’s Celebration of Shakespeare.