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CURRICULUM VITAE
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Ph.D. in Theatre
Certificate in Performance Studies
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
M.A. in Theatre
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
B.A. in Theatre and English
Concentration in Creative Writing
Wofford College
Spartanburg, SC
Education
Teaching
Experience
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Wofford College, 2017 - 2021
Courses Taught: Dramaturgy, Dramatic Theory, The Art of Acting, Introduction to Theatre
Interim Assistant Professor of Theatre
Ball State University, 2016 - 2017
Courses Taught: Theatre of the 21st Century, Pre-Modern Theatre History, Introduction to Theatre
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Bowling Green State University, 2015 - 2016
Course Taught: Introduction to Performance Studies
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Defiance College, 2015 - 2016
Courses Taught: Theatre Directing and Design, Introduction to Acting, Introduction to Human Communication
Interim Assistant Professor of Theatre
Kennesaw State University, 2014 - 2015
Courses Taught: Theatre History and Theory I and III, Introduction to Theatre Studies
Graduate Teaching Associate
Bowling Green State University, 2016 - 2017
Courses Taught: Theatre History and Literature I and II, Script Analysis, The Theatre Experience, Introduction to Film
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of South Carolina, 2008 - 2010
Course Taught: Introduction to Theatre
Honors & Grants
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Research Grant
Wofford College, 2020-21
Non-Service Dissertation Fellowship
Bowling Green State University, 2013-14
The Charles E. Shanklin Award for Research Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
Bowling Green State University Graduate College, 2012
Additional
Experience
Assistant Curator of Adult Programs
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 2022-present
Associate Programs Director
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, 2021 - 2022
Arts Administrator
Wofford College, 2017 - 2021
Production Manager
Wofford College Dept. of Theatre, 2019 - 2020
Editorial Board Member
Etudes: An Online Theatre and Performance Studies Journal for Emerging Scholars, 2014 - present
Publications
Past is Precedent: Native Survivance in Mary Kathryn Nagle's Sovereignty
Theatre Symposium, Anticipated Dec. 2021
"As if There Were No Damages": Representing Native American Spirituality in the Dramas of Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Ecumenica: Journal of Performance, 2015
Presentations
From Noble Savage to Eco-Warrior: Appropriative Primitivism on Countercultural Stages
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2020
Questioning the Nature of Our Reality: Nostalgia
and the Not-So-Wild-West in HBO's Westworld
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2019
Check Your Bias: Engaging Ethical Inquiries in Theatre History
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2017
Plastic Shamans and Psychedelic Mystics: Countercultural Stereotypes of Native Americans and the [Super-]Natural World
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2016
Crafting a New Narrative: Theatre Histories in the Digital Age, co-authored with Dr. Patrick Konesko
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2016
"Trapped in History": Countercultural Myths of the Vanished Native Reincarnate
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2015
Always and No Longer Our Own: Constructing Place as Foreign and Familial
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 2014
Resisting Reincarnation: Mourning and Appropriation in the Living Theatre's Paradise Now
American Society for Theatre Research, 2013
"As If There Were No Damages": Representing Native American Spirituality in the Dramas of Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2013
Moderating
Panel Chair, TV Nostalgia and the American Gothic
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2019
Panel Chair, Representation and Marginalization in Escapist Narratives
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2019
Event Organizer and Moderator, Post-Show Talkbacks on Dutchman
Wofford College, 2019
Panel Chair, Welcome to My Hood: Sisterhood and Womanhood in Comics and Cartoons
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2016
Panel Chair, Political Contestations in the Americas
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2015
Panel Chair, Animation and Imagined Realities
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2014
Panel Chair and Session Organizer, The Grounds of Memory: Exploring the Interfaces between Identity and Place
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 2014
Moderator, Elsewhere Theatre Season Retrospective
Bowling Green State University, 2013
Moderator, Postshow Talkback on Skin
Bowling Green State University, 2012
Selected Production Experience
Dramaturgy:
The Lion in Winter - Dramaturg
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, 2024
Antigone - Dramaturg
Wofford College, 2017
Arms and the Man - Dramaturgy Mentor
Kennesaw State University, 2015
Into the Woods - Dramaturg
Kennesaw State University, 2014
Private Eyes - Dramaturg
Kennesaw State University, 2014
Sonia Flew - Dramaturg
Bowling Green State University, 2011
Iphigenia and Other Daughters - Dramaturg
University of South Carolina, 2009
Copenhagen - Dramaturg
Aiken Community Playhouse, 2007
Directing:
Chicken and Biscuits - Assistant Director
Farmers Alley Theatre, 2023
As You Like It - Assistant Director
University of Wyoming, 2021
Antigone - Assistant Director
Wofford College, 2017
Clown Bar - Director
Defiance College, 2015
No Roosters in the Desert - Director
Bowling Green State University, 2013
Sonia Flew - Assistant Director
Bowling Green State University, 2011
Fiddler on the Roof - Director
Briarwood Academy, 2008
Copenhagen - Assistant Director
Aiken Community Playhouse, 2007
Acting:
As You Like It - Audrey
Beautiful Kids Independent Shakespeare Company, 2013
The Most Massive Woman Wins - Cel
Bowling Green State University, 2013
Dead Man's Cell Phone - Jean
Bowling Green State University, 2012
Selections from The Car: "The Taxi" - She
Bowling Green State University and Skewed Visions, 2011
Victory on Mrs. Dandywine's Island - Miss Companion
Bowling Green State University, 2010
The Language of Angels - Kendra
University of South Carolina, 2009
University Service
Anti-Racism 101 Challenge Mentor
Wofford College, July 2020 - present
Teach.Equity.Now Fellow
Wofford College, July 2020 - present
Indigenous Peoples' Heritage Month Planning Committee
Wofford College, July 2020 - present
Region VII Dramaturgy Judge, Kennedy Center for American College Theatre Festival
Colorado State University, Spring 2020
Faculty Advisor, Alpha Psi Omega
Wofford College, Spring 2019 - present
Title IX Institutional Equity Investigator
Wofford College, 2018 - 2019
Resident Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Wofford College, 2017 - present
Faculty Mentor, Hush Hush: An Evening of Short Plays
Defiance College, 2016
Faculty Mentor, Ten Minute Play Festival
Kennesaw State University, 2015
Event Coordinator, The Shaw Series at KSU
Kennesaw State University, 2015
Event Coordinator, Contested Conversations: A Theatre History Symposium
Kennesaw State University, 2014 - 2015
Vice President, Graduate Student Theatre Organization
Bowling Green State University, 2013 - 2014
Secretary, Graduate Student Theatre Organization
Bowling Green State University, 2012 - 2013
Planning Committee, GuSTO Colloquium Series
Bowling Green State University, 2013 - 2014
Theatre Season Selection Committee Member
Bowling Green State University, 2012 - 2013
Graduate Liaison, Graduate Student Theatre Organization
Bowling Green State University, 2011 - 2012
Performer/Facilitator, Graduate Student Orientation
Bowling Green State University, 2011 - 2012
Coach, Actors' Lab
Bowling Green State University, 2010 - 2011
Professional
Affiliations
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Mid-America Theatre Conference
Southeastern Theatre Conference
Mid-Atlantic and Popular American Culture Association
International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry
Honor Societies
Phi Kappa Phi, Bowling Green State University
Golden Key Honor Society, University of South Carolina
Phi Beta Kappa, Wofford College
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