SCHOLARSHIP
Publications and Reviews
"A Queer Sort of Whiteness: Circulations of Deviancy and Desire in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Gummo and Boys Don't Cry." Genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts 25 (Fall 2005): 189-206.
"'Oh well, whatever, nevermind:' Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here and the Problem of Authenticity." Hunter Online Theatre Review (www.hotreview.org). Ed. Jonathan Kalb. Read essay.
“On Boyhood and Public Swimming: Sidney Kingsley’s Dead End and Representations of Underclass Street Kids in American Cultural Production.” The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader. Eds. Caroline Levander and Carol Singley. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003: 208-25
Review of Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History. Eds. Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002) in Theatre Journal 55 (October 2003): 567-68. Read review.
Review of Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theatre. Eds. Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1999) in Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 17 (Fall 2002): 140-43.
Review of Hay Fever, by Noël Coward. Directed by Anne Bogart for Actors’ Theatre of Louisville. Theatre Journal 54 (December 2002): 638-640. Read review.
No Curtain. No Scenery: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and the Politics of Whiteness.” Theatre Symposium 9 (2001): 107-116.
“Female Troubles: Directing As You Like It.” On-Stage Studies 19 (1996): 160-69.
As You Like It: Shakespeare’s Dynamic Contradictions.” Colorado Shakespeare Festival Program (1995): 25-29. Read Synopsis, Program Notes and Essay
Theatre Critic for The Colorado Daily in Boulder, Colorado (1997-1998)
Conference Presentations
“Teenage Tempest : Recuperating Mary Tilford as an Agent of Resistance in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour"
Modern Langauge Association Conference (December 2006)
"Little Lords and Country Paupers: 19th Century Child Actor Elsie Leslie and the Performance of Ameican National Identity"
The New Literacies Conference 2005: Writing, Teaching, Performing America
“Devouring Childhood: Food, Desire and the Performing Child in Oliver!
Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2004
"Bullet Holes/Embedded Traces:
Interrogating Representations of Youth and Authenticity on the Fin de Millennium American Stage”
Mid-America Theatre Conference 2004
"A Queer Sort of Whiteness: Circulations of Deviancy and Desire in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Gummo and Boys Don't Cry"
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2003
"In a Different Voice: Female Friendship and the Rhetoric of Silence in Shakespeare's As You Like It"
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2003
"Unclean Spectacle: Representing White Trash America in Jack Kirkland's 1933 Stage Adaptation of Tobacco Road"
SETC Theatre Symposium Conference 2002
"Conjuring Up the Violence: Negotiating the Boundaries of Childhood in Julie Taymor's Titus"
Philological Society of the Carolinas Conference 2002
"America's Eternal Child: Charlotte Crabtree and the Idea of Innocence on the 19th Century American Stage"
SETC Theatre Symposium Conference 2001
"Transition and Transformation: 1930s American Culture and the Broadway Stage"
Southeastern Theatre Conference 2001
"No Curtain. No Scenery: Thornton Wilder's Our Town and the Politics of Whiteness"
SETC Theatre Symposium 2000
"Teaching the Conflicts in Theatre History: Aeschylus' The Euminides and the Question of Misogyny"
Southeastern Theatre Conference 2000
"Someone to Watch Over: Performing Boyhood in the 1935 Production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End"
3rd Annual Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference 2000
Dissertation
"Dirtied Faces: Crisis and the Representation of Childhood and Youth on the Broadway Stage during the Great Depression"
University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2000