I am a multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and critic working across time-based and visual media.
I am a professor of theater studies at UCLA and UCSB, and a 2025 resident at Mohilef Studios in Los Angeles, CA, where I am focused on visual and performance art.
I hold a PhD in English from Harvard University, where I taught from 2014-2021. I was a Visiting Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where I taught performance studies, theater history, and devised performance methods in the Department of Theater and Dance. I specialize in modern and contemporary drama, theater for social justice, and gender studies. At Harvard, I also served from 2016-2021 as the Executive Director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research and coordinated the Theater and Performance Colloquium from 2014-2017. During the year 2018-2019, I was a Mellon Fellow at the Council for European Studies at Columbia University.
My current book project, The Radiant Abyss: Boredom and the Modern Stage, examines the social and aesthetic utility of boredom in confined spaces such as theaters and prisons.
I also make theater with various groups, including clown-based performance at The Elysian Theater, and contemporary and classical plays with the New York-based Cacolet Collective and the Durham, NC-based Delta Boys.
I hold a PhD in English from Harvard University, where I taught from 2014-2021. I was a Visiting Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where I taught performance studies, theater history, and devised performance methods in the Department of Theater and Dance. I specialize in modern and contemporary drama, theater for social justice, and gender studies. At Harvard, I also served from 2016-2021 as the Executive Director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research and coordinated the Theater and Performance Colloquium from 2014-2017. During the year 2018-2019, I was a Mellon Fellow at the Council for European Studies at Columbia University.
My current book project, The Radiant Abyss: Boredom and the Modern Stage, examines the social and aesthetic utility of boredom in confined spaces such as theaters and prisons.
I also make theater with various groups, including clown-based performance at The Elysian Theater, and contemporary and classical plays with the New York-based Cacolet Collective and the Durham, NC-based Delta Boys.