I am a highly interdisciplinary scholar. My PhD dissertation focused on contemporary representations of male friendship in media, theatre, and literature, viewed through the lens of queer and feminist theory. My scholarly interests include theatre, media studies, performance, gender, refugee studies, and contemporary Arab literature and theatre. My current teaching and research also consider how art (broadly construed) can shape and reveal human attention (focus, concentration, contemplation, awareness, etc.) and how art shapes the self. I am also interested in politics as community engagement.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
“An Invitation from the Displaced: Refuge Restaged in The Jungle and As Far as My Fingertips Take Me.” Modern Drama 64, no. 3 (2021).
“Afterthoughts on ‘Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives,’ inspired by Hannibal’s Third Season.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 35, no. 6 (2018): 583-600.
“The Many Afterlives of Matt Talbot: Contesting Irish Nationalisms in Thomas Kilroy’s Talbot’s Box.” Ecumenica 10, no. 1 (2017).
Co-authored with Sandy Peterson, “Voicing Our Dissent: Theatre and Community after the Wisconsin Uprising.” Theatre Topics 25, no. 2 (2015): 103-114.
“Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives: Subversion and Homosocial Desire in NBC’s Hannibal.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32, no. 6 (August 18, 2015): 550–67.
Book Chapters:
“The Maghreb on the American Stage: The ‘Barbary Wars’ in Post-Independence US Theatre.” Arabs, Politics, and Performance, edited by George Potter et al., Routledge, 2024.
“Afterthoughts on ‘Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives,’ Inspired by Hannibal’s Third Season.” Hannibal Lecter’s Forms, Formulations, and Transformations, edited by Jessica Balanzategui and Naja Later, Routledge, 2020. (Republished from 2018 article.)
Edited Collections:
Co-edited and co-translated with Amir Al-Azraki, Contemporary Plays from Iraq Volume II, Bloomsbury, forthcoming and expected 2025.