TAPS/English
I am a joint PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies and English Language and Literature and a Residential Dissertation Completion Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. My research and teaching expertise is in theater and performance studies, alongside queer, feminist, psychoanalytic, and literary theory, with a special focus on the studies of masculinity and whiteness. My dissertation, “Boys Will Be Men and Other Consequences,” traces the violence of contemporary masculinity and its crises through its narratives, performances, and the compulsory imperative to come of age across the 20th/21st centuries.
I was one of ATHE’s 2022 Emerging Scholars in Performance Studies; a 2022 Fellow in the University of Chicago’s Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative; and a founding member of UChicago's Movement Theory Lab, fellowship-funded by the Neubauer Collegium. My writing can be found in ASAP/Journal and GLQ with a peer-reviewed article recently published in TDR/The Drama Review.
In addition to my scholarship, I maintain a performance practice which deploys (and digitally tracks across social media) choreographies of masculinity as an experiment in repetition, normativity, and identity-formation. I have exhibited and performed in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, and Berlin. I hold a BFA in Theater from Florida State University and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University of New York.
Publications
—“An Inconsummate Man: The Violent Dramaturgy of Elliot Rodger.” TDR/The Drama Review 69, no. 2 (June 2025): 101-115.
—“More (Than) Masculinity: K. Allison Hammer’s Masculinity in Transition.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 31, no. 2 (April 2025).
—“Five on MIKE.” With Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Clara Nizard, Tina Post, and Asya Sagnak. ASAP/Journal, September 14.
Recent Courses
Spring 2024, Instructor of Record, Text and Performance, Arts Core Curriculum
Winter 2023, Course Assistant, Shrews! Unladylike Conduct on Stage in Early Modern England (Ellen MacKay)
Autumn 2022, Course Assistant, Critical Videogame Studies (Patrick Jagoda)
Autumn 2021, Course Assistant, Queering the American Family Drama (Leslie Danzig)