From Paul Mascarene’s diary in the British Library. Taken July 2017.
The Globe, taken on a research trip to London, January 2017.
Current Project
My dissertation project focuses on the ideology of gender in the British empire of the long eighteenth century as shaped by performance. Using a lens I term “hauntography,” I examine how performances by British actresses were read through both the fictional content of the plays as well as their public personae to produce a specifically British, feminine identity for metropolitan audiences. You can click the button below to read it!
I also have a forthcoming book chapter about how the historiography of the British actress has selectively read salacious anecdotes as evidence to construct the early English actress as a figure to be marginalized.
Research Interests
The Long Eighteenth Century, especially in the Atlantic world; Directing/Dramaturgy; New Play Development; Historiography of the Actress; Sports as Performance; Comedy; Gender Studies; Transnational/Postcolonial Studies; Philosophy and Performance; Media Studies; Celebrity Studies.
Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.