Section 03

RESEARCH

I research topics including acting and embodied performance, Black studies, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance history, dance studies, dramaturgy, humor theory, adaptation studies, and solo performance.

Published

PUBLISHED WORK

Article

"Embodying Extraness: Leslie Jones's Black Feminist Comedic Strategy"

Theatre Topics, Volume 4, Number 2, July 2024, pp. 119–126

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Review

"Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth & Twenty-First Century United States"

Text and Performance Quarterly, Volume 45, 2025 — Issue 2

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Live Event

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Performance Studies International (PSi #30)

"The Maya Rudolphication of Kamala Harris: A Performative Cruzo"

Fortaleza, Brazil — December 2025

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Public

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Speaker — The Old Globe Theatre

"Staging Change: Black Performance and Theatrical Evolution"

San Diego, CA — June 2024

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Panel Curator & Keynote Speaker — Los Angeles Athletic Club

"Alvin Ailey's LA: Intersections of Modern Dance and Athletics"

Featuring original Alvin Ailey Company Member Don Martin and Dance Pioneer Lula Washington

Los Angeles, CA - September 2019

Speaker — h Club, Los Angeles

"Emancipating the Image of Black Women"

Illuminate Speak Series — Los Angeles, CA — 2019

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Speaker — Cantor Museum, Stanford University

"Richard Long's 'Georgia Granite Circle' Performs"

Angles on Art Series — Stanford University — April 2017

Speaker — Huntington Library

"Understanding through Provocation: How Web Entertainment is Tackling the Historical Discussion of Slavery"

Pasadena, CA — April 2015

In Progress

BOOK

Manuscript — In Progress

"Ambitious Acts: Contemporary Black Feminist Performance Adaptation"

Chapter Draft

Draft of "Chapter One, Clinching Ambition: Refusal and Exception in Black Women's Canonical Adaptation"

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Book Proposal

Book Proposal for "Ambitious Acts: Contemporary Black Feminist Performance Adaptation"

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