| SCHOLARSHIP |
| Publications
and Reviews
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| "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 |
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| "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 |