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Selected writing


ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
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"The Stranger's Case: Accenting Shakespeare's ESL Characters," in Accentism, edited by Adele Lee, Routledge (anticipated 2021).

“'And practice rhetoric in your common talk': How Ralph Made Rhetors Of Us All," in Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in honor of Ralph Alan Cohen, edited by Paul Menzer and Amy Cohen, Farleigh Dickinson University Press (2019).

Review, Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare’s Time by Garry Wills, The Historian, vol. 78.3, (fall 2016), pp.594.95.

“‘Past the size of dreaming’: Chasing Mark Antony’s Shadow,” Playhouse Insider, Summer/Fall 2015.

​"'Someone is looking at me still:' The Audience-Creature Relationship in the Theater Plays of Samuel Beckett," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol.1, Number 51, Spring 2009, pp.76-93; reprinted in ​Samuel Beckett, Bloom's Modern Critical Views (London: Chelsea House, 2011).
 


DOCTORAL THESIS

“Essex and the history players: the historiographic dramaturgy of John Hayward, William Shakespeare, George Chapman, and Samuel Daniel,” University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2012.


CONFERENCE PAPERS & ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

"'Words, words, words': Hamlet and the Rhetoric of the Cuckoo," Blackfriars Conference, Plenary Paper, 2019.

"'My native English now I must forego': Reflections on an Original Pronunciation Production of Richard II for Prague Shakespeare Company," Freshman Honors Guest Lecture Series, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2017.

"Voicing the Inside-Outsider: Performing Shakespeare's ESL Characters," Blackfriars Conference, Plenary Paper, 2017.

"'As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods': The Ethical Crisis in Staging Nihilism in King Lear," 24th Annual Seminar on Law and Literature, Washington and Lee University, Oct. 2016.

“From early modern devil to post-Holocaust victim: playing Shylock across the ages,” Virginia Governor's Latin Academy, Randolph-Macon College, July 2016.

"Puppets and Painted Maypoles: the Brudermord Hamlet," the College of William and Mary Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance, March 2016.


“With the Digital Lights On: Livestreaming and Online Interactivity in Performance and Education,” Blackfriars Conference, 2015.

“The Graduate Company Model: Approaches to Collaborative Pedagogy,” South Eastern Theater Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Spring 2015.

“‘Let me play the lion, too’: A Rare Vision for Training Collaborative Theater Makers,” Association of Theater in Higher Education, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2014. 

“Embodying Shakespeare: Performance of the Language,” South Eastern Theater Conference, Mobile, Alabama, Spring 2014.

“Bottom’s Dream: Collaborative Pedagogy and the Company Model,” Butler School of Dance and Theater, 2013.

“Drawing Shakespearean Characters in Black and/or White: Conflicting Methodologies in the Contemporary Rehearsal Room.” Blackfriars Conference, 2013.

“Rebellion Reflected: Hamlet and the 2nd Earl of Essex,” Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, 2013.

“The Dramatic Caesura in Action,” Blackfriars Conference, Plenary Paper, 2009. 



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