WRITING PORTFOLIO, PUBLICATIONS, AND TALKS
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre — Bloomsbury, co-author with Dr. Stacy Wolf
book detailing how to analyze musicals through a feminist lens, featuring case studies of significant musicals from the Golden Age to the present
WRITING
Academic
“Homes for Strange Children: Shirley Jackson’s Legacy in Daisy Johnson’s Sisters (2020)” — Monstrum 6.2: Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives (December 2023)
Perlego Study Guides: Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity, Postfeminism, Posthumanism, Gothic Fiction — Key Elements of Gothic Literature & Film, Monster Theory, Hauntology, Magical Realism, Afrofuturism, Utopia v. Dystopia — What’s the Difference?, Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Existentialism, Materialism, New Materialism, Biopower & Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Narratology, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Lacan’s Mirror Stage, Absurdism, Deconstruction, Digital Humanities, Medical Humanities, Nihilism, Camp
Perlego Essay Writing Guides
Review of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (2022) edited by Joe Vallese — Fantastika Journal
reviewed anthology of queer memoir and film criticism for peer-reviewed academic journal
“Women in Charge: Female Creative Teams and Waitress,” Milestones in Musical Theatre — Routledge, co-author with Dr. Stacy Wolf (June 2023)
chapter addressing the historical milestone of Waitress opening as the first production in Broadway history with the four lead creative roles filled by women, placing this milestone in historical context by addressing other women-led creative teams and analyzing the content of the musical itself
“The Performance and Temporality of Illness in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights” — Oxford Research in English (Issue 15, May 2023)
peer-reviewed analysis of illness in Wuthering Heights, drawing on theories of gender performance, nineteenth-century illness, and crip time
Monstrous Consumption and Resistance in The Vegetarian and ‘Eight Bites’ (excerpted) — Tortoise: A Journal of Writing Pedagogy (Spring 2021)
Haunting Houses: Posthuman Subjectivities and Queer Orientations in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and Daisy Johnson’s “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle” (2016) — Master’s dissertation submitted to the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oxford, Grade: Distinction, advised by Erin Lafford and Pelagia Goulimari)
A Transgressive Alternative: The Threat Posed by Jewelle Gomez’s Queer Vampire in The Gilda Stories — junior year research paper submitted to the Department of English at Princeton University, Grade: A, advised by Russ Leo
Journalistic
Pond Crossing — Oxford Review of Books (Winter ’22 Issue)
review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Violence of Language — Oxford Review of Books (Spring ’22 Issue)
review of Babel by R.F. Kuang, incorporating an interview with the author
An Anatomy for Our Time — The Oxonian Review (2/28/22)
review of “Melancholy: A New Anatomy,” the Bodleian Library’s museum exhibition celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
“WandaVision” creator Jac Schaeffer ’00 discusses Princeton connections, sitcom inspiration, and female representation —The Daily Princetonian (3/12/21)
Topaz Winters, student and artist, makes meaning out of suffering — The Daily Princetonian (2/16/21)
Magazine editor resigns over Dickman’s controversial poem, as U. community weights in — The Daily Princetonian (8/17/20)
Prospect Recipes: Welsh Cookies — The Daily Princetonian (8/16/20)
Professor Thomas Roche Jr., Renaissance scholar and ‘generous teacher,’ dies at 89 — The Daily Princetonian (5/21/20)
Q&A with Nicholas Johnson ’20, U.’s first black valedictorian — The Daily Princetonian (3/14/20)
When the show can’t go on: COVID-19 and Princeton’s performing arts — The Daily Princetonian (3/25/20)
Womanhood, love, and the gaze in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” — The Daily Princetonian (3/10/20)
“Sister Mok-rahn” elevates artists of East Asian descent through story of North Korean defector — The Daily Princetonian (2/13/20)
Recently named Rhodes Scholars discuss their academic passions — The Daily Princetonian (12/15/19)
Exposed ‘Oklahoma!’ reveals its (and our) darkness — The Nassau Weekly (7/31/19)
‘Moscow’ updates Chekhov, makes audiences LOL and cry in the club — The Nassau Weekly (7/22/19)
Art Museum launches first bilingual exhibit exploring Mexican migration in folk art — The Daily Princetonian (4/9/19)
Q&A with Valerie Bell ’77, first female, first African-American senior class president — The Daily Princetonian (3/26/19)
More articles from my time at The Daily Princetonian are available here.
In the summer of 2019, I received support from the Sam Hutton Fund for the Arts to learn more about theatrical criticism by seeing and reviewing productions. In seven weeks, I reviewed 19 shows. All reviews are available on my project blog, The College Critic. Here are some of my favorites:
Hamill’s adaptation is not like other ‘Little Women’ — The College Critic (6/30/19)
In the dark world of ‘INK,’ hot presses mean high stakes — The College Critic (6/17/19)
Riveting ‘Ferryman’ keeps audience in awe and anxiety — The College Critic (6/6/19)
Fiction
DRAMATURGY
Unbecoming by Emma Catherine Watkins, dir. by Eliana Cohen-Orth — The Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Music Theater
provided feedback on several rounds of script edits, participated in rehearsal room conversations
created companion website compiling dramaturgical research, historical context, and process-based interviews
planned and led talkback after virtual premiere
A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, dir. by Richard Peng — The Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Music Theater
created dramaturgy reference books featuring historical research, show context, glossary of script terms, and more for the cast and creative team to use throughout the rehearsal process
wrote program notes and companion packet focused on the music behind the production, featuring an interview with the music director
TALKS
“Do you believe in ghosts?”: The Polar Express as an Uncanny Ghost Story for Christmas
Presented at Fireside Tales of Terror: The Gothic and Winter, a hybrid conference hosted by the University of Warwick (December 15-16, 2022)
Haunting Houses
Presented at research lunch hosted by Queer Intersections Oxford (May 3, 2022)
Haunting Houses: The Queer Possibilities of Posthuman Spaces in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Daisy Johnson’s “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle”
Presented at New Queer Gothics, a one-day conference hosted by Q+ at the University of Cambridge (April 29, 2022)
Casting the Women of Les Misérables: Patterns and Problems
Presented and participated in panel discussion about feminist approaches to Les Misérables at Barricades: A Les Mis Convention (April 22-24, 2022)
“Not pretty or safe or easy”: Unhealthy Relationships in the Works of Stephen Sondheim
Presented at Telephone Hour, a virtual colloquium hosted by the Musical Theatre and Dance research group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (October 13, 2020)
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