This video was created in conjunction with a Mellon Foundation working group: “Scholars as Humans: Enacting the Liberal Arts in Public” (2016-2017).
Education
- Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Comparative Literature (with Honors); Certificate in Gender Studies; A&S Dissertation Teaching Award (for my thesis on prison theater and the art of rehabilitation) - M.A., San Francisco State University
World & Comparative Literature (with Distinction) - B.A., Louisiana State University
English & Philosophy (cum laude)
Employment
- Director, LGBT Studies Program, Cornell University (2020-Present)
- Director, Graduate Studies, Cornell University (2016-2020)
- Associate Professor, Cornell University (2012-Present)
Department of Performing and Media Arts; Affiliated Faculty Member in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; LGBTQ Studies; American Studies; Visual Studies - Faculty Fellow, Harvard University (2012-2013)
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History - Assistant Professor, Cornell University (2006-2012)
Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance - Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University (2004-2006)
Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance - Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship – Declined
University of Chicago
Elected Offices & Leadership Positions
- The Women & Theatre Program (President, Vice President)
- Civic Ensemble Theatre Company (Board)
- Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation (Board)
- Open Meadows Foundation (Award Committee)
- Cherry Arts (Board)
- Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Secretary)
- Modern Language Association (Delegate)