Location: ML 243
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of 蓝莓视频. My research explores performance history in the US and Canada, focusing on intersections with journalism, mass communication, and political and community organizing in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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My first book, explores a Depression-era collaboration between theatre artists and journalists. You can hear me talk about it . Published by the University of Massachusetts Press (2023) in its Journalism and Democracy series, the book was awarded a Brooks McNamara publication subvention by the American Society for Theatre Research and shortlisted for the Frank Luther Mott 鈥 Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award.
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More recently, I have begun to explore journalistic imagination in contemporary art and performance, as well as early 20th century Jewish labor organizing. In conjunction with my interest in political performance, I have a keen interest in community-engaged teaching and public programming.听Prior to joining 蓝莓视频 in 2017, I was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Humanities at the University of Richmond (2016-17), and the Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Florida鈥檚 Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (2015-16).
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Education:
Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University, 2015
Books:
Journalism and Democracy. University of Massachusetts: 2023.)
Articles and Chapters:
鈥.鈥澨Canadian Theatre Review听203 (2025): 16-23.听
鈥鈥澨Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939): contexte & enjeux/context & issues听(2023): 227-242.
鈥溙.鈥 Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23.2 (July 2020): 121-147.
鈥鈥 Invited Roundtable on Kate Dossett鈥檚 Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. Black Perspectives and The Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 15 July 2020, .听
With Lauren Tilton. 鈥鈥澨Review of Communication听19, no. 2 (2019): 127-146.
鈥鈥澨Theatre Survey听58, no. 3 (2017): 300-325.
鈥鈥 Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics. 2017. Ed. Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 135-157.
Selected grants, awards, fellowships
Outstanding Performance Award, 2024, Faculty of Arts, University of 蓝莓视频.
PI, Insight Development Grant, SSHRC, 2020, for 鈥淣ewsworthy: Journalistic imagination in Alexandra Bell's Counternarratives and Hill and Silvera's Liberty Deferred.鈥
Courses Taught
COMMST/THPERF 220 Performance Studies
COMMST 223 Public Speaking
COMMST 227 Leadership
COMMST 228 Public Communication
COMMST 399 Communication Inquiry
COMMST/THPERF 440 Performative Inquiry