I am a scholar, teacher, and director. My work investigates the intersections between performance, race, violence, and public space.

In my current book project, Extra Ordinary Violence: Performance, Race, and the Making of U.S. Gun Culture, I argue that gun culture in the United States is reflective of and conditioned by racialized performances of citizenship and public inclusion, both onstage and in everyday life. Read more about this project here. I have published essays and reviews in TDR, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Lateral, and The Journal of Visual Culture, and in the book collections Performance in a Militarized Culture and Enacting History. My work has also been featured in Public Books and Second Thoughts, a publication of Duke University’s Center for Firearms Law. I am also conducting research for my next book project, which examines how policing in the United States is shaped by performance—both in terms of public perceptions of policing and in the ways that police enact their duties.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at Bowdoin College. Previously, I was a Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University (visit the JWJI here) and an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Media Arts at Brigham Young University. I have taught courses on theatre and performance theory, race and performance, directing, dramaturgy, contemporary performance practices, cultural studies, American studies, and writing. I did my graduate work in theatre and performance studies at UCLA and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York.