CV - HIGHLIGHTS

Education

Ph.D. Theatre Historiography and Performance Studies, University of Minnesota, 2019

M.A. Theatre Studies, emphasis in Directing, Miami University, 2013

B.A. Theatre and Political Science, Ashland University, 2011

Research Appointments 

Andrew W. Mellon Flagship Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2020–2021)

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, Lebanon (2019–2020)

Selected Publications

Books

Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India. Routledge, 2024. 

Publications-in-Progress

Performing Collectivization: Theatres of Extraction and Post-Industrial Heritage in South Africa. Book Manuscript: In Development.

“’If I Amount to Nothing I’ll End Up In This Building’: Visualizing Violence through Participatory Performance at Ponte City.”  Journal of African Cultural Studies special edition on "Vocabularies of Violence." Accepted: In Development. 

“’In Case of Revolution, Break Glass’: Decolonial Performance and the City in Alternative Beirut.” Performance Research Special Issue "On Decolonization." Accepted. Publication Date 2026. 

Articles

“COVID Relief and the Dynamics of State Care in South Africa’s Performance Economy.” Performance Research, 2022. 

“Training Corporate Bodies.” TDR/The Drama Review, 2019. 

“The Perils and Possibilities of the Creative Economy.” AGITATE!, 2019. 

“Think differently, get creative”: producing precarity in India’s corporate theatre culture industry. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 2017. 

Reviews

Review of South Africa’s National Arts Festival. Theatre Journal. March, 2025.

Review of Jisha Menon’s Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. (Northwestern University Press, 2021). Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 2024.

Review of Aparna Dharwadkar’s A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1950 to the Present. (Oxford University Press, 2018). Theatre Survey, 2021

Grants and Fellowships

Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Baruch College, 2024

PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award, City University of New York, 2023, 2024

Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Fellow, Office of Diversity, City University of New York, 2023

Collaborative Research Grant, American Society for Theatre Research, 2021

Working Groups

"Performance in/from the Global South" Working Group Convener. American Society for Theatre Research.

"Performance and Business" Research Working Group Convener. University of Calgary.