Research

All research publications are linked below. Publications should be available if you have institutional access; it's helpful for record keeping if you access them from your libraries.

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Theatricality of the Closet: Clothing, Historiography, Performance between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan. Book manuscript, in press with Northwestern University Press, Performance Works series. Eds. Patrick Anderson and Nicholas Ridout. 2023.

Theatre Brief, 13th Edition. Co-authored with Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University) and legacy author Robert Cohen (emeritus, University of California, Irvine). McGraw-Hill. 2022.

Co-authored with Jessica Brater (Montclair State University). “We Aren’t Here to Teach What We Already Know.” Troubling Traditions. Eds. Lindsay Mantoan, Matthew Moore, and Angela Farr Schiller. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. 288-297.

“‘Cheerin’ Ain’t for Show, Y’all’: Cheerleaders, Performative Uniforms, and Theatre Affect.” Sports Plays. Eds. Broderick D.V. Chow and Eero Laine. London & New York: Routledge, 2o21 (invited contribution). 190-206.

“ElasticiTEA? Preliminary Theses on Cross-Cultural (re)Presentation and the Japanese ‘Way of Tea.’” GPS: Global Performance Studies 4.1 (2021): n.p.*

“Teaching Under Duress: Notes on the Pedagogy of Lockdown and Wildfire.” Theatre Topics 30.1 (March 2020): 21-30. *

“‘Maiden’s Armor’: Global Gothic Lolita Fashion Communities and Technologies of Girly Counter-Identity.” Theatre Survey special issue, “Performing Girlhoods” 60.1 (January 2019): 122-146.*

“No ‘Thing to Wear’: A Brief History of Kimono and Inappropriation from Japonisme to Kimono Protests.” Theatre Research International, 43.2 (July 2018): 165-184.* Outstanding Article Award (ATHE 2019), Gerald Kahan Prize 2019 (ASTR 2019).

Co-authored with Aoife Monks. “Genres and Repertoires.” A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age. Eds. Kim Solga, Tracy C. Davis, Christopher Balme. London: Bloomsbury, 2017 (invited contribution).

“‘The Unnatural History and Petticoat Mystery of Boulton and Park’: A Victorian Sex Scandal and the Theatre Defense.” TDR: The Drama Review. 220 (2013): 135-156. Graduate Student Essay Contest co-winner (TDR 2012), Gerald Kahan Prize winner (ASTR 2014).

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Theatre Brief, 13th Edition. Co-authored with Donovan Sherman (Seton Hall University) and legacy author Robert Cohen (emeritus, University of California, Irvine). McGraw-Hill. 2022.

Co-authored with Eero Laine (SUNY Buffalo). “The Labor of Academic Journals; or, Is Anyone Going to Read This?” Reception: The Journal of Reception Studies special issue, “On Reading”

Co-authored with Eero Laine (SUNY Buffalo). “‘Cultivating a Small Field’: On the Work of Citation in Theatre & Performance Studies Scholarship.” Under consideration in Theatre Topics special journal issue “On Citation.” Eds. John Fletcher and Suzanne Shawyer.

“Auntie-thesis: Annotated Syllabus from UCLA’s ‘Global Auntie Studies.’” TPQ: Text & Performance Quarterly special issue, Critical Aunty Studies. Spring 2022. 358-366.

“ElasticiTEA? Preliminary Theses on Cross-Cultural (re)Presentation and the Japanese ‘Way of Tea.’” GPS: Global Performance Studies 4.1 (2021): n.p.*

“Teaching Under Duress: Notes on the Pedagogy of Lockdown and Wildfire.” Theatre Topics 30.1 (March 2020): 21-30. *

“Annotated Vegas: Mapping Performance Interventions at ATHE 2017.” Notes from the Field online. Theatre Topics 28.1 (March 2018): n.p.

“Costume.” Routledge Companion to Scenography. Ed. Arnold Aronson. New York and London: Routledge, 2017 (invited contribution).

“Street Corner Angels and Internet Demons: Spectacular Visibility and the Transnational Gothic.” Fashions: Exploring Fashion Through Culture. Ed. Jacqueline Foltyn. Freeland, UK: Interdisciplinary.net Press, 2013 (invited submission).

“Historionics: Neither Here Nor There with Historical Reality TV.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Eds. Henry Bial and Brian Herrera. 24.2 (2009): 135-150.

“Consuming Culture: The Japanese Way of Tea in International Circulation.” Performance, Embodiment, and Cultural Memory. Eds. Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

“Real Theatre by Paul Rae.” Book review. Theatre Research International. In Press.

“Double Take: Actresses as Working Women by Tracy C. Davis.” Book review. Theatre Research International 47.2 (Summer 2022): 203-205.

“Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, edited by Rosemary Candelario and Bruce Baird.” Book review. Asian Theatre Journal, 38.2 (Fall 2021): 591-594.

“Karen Sherman’s ‘Soft Goods’ and Poor Dog Group’s ‘Group Therapy’.” Performance review. Theatre Journal 70.4 (December 2018): 550-553.

“11th Annual Emmy Costume Exhibition, FIDM Los Angeles, CA, 22 August-7 October, 2017.” Exhibition review. Studies in Costume & Performance. 3.1 (June 2018): 97-127.

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