Teaching

As a teacher and educator, my pedagogy is invested in four major tenets: 1) mobilizing antiracist, feminist, and accessible learning environments to nourish progressive thinking; 2) developing complex and nuanced critical analysis skills; 3) communication in a wide variety of strategies and formats; and 4) fostering creative collaboration and artistic innovation alongside rigorous scholarly practice. I cultivate a non-judgmental yet challenging classroom space where students are comfortable to express their burgeoning ideas in order to make room for transformation. Bringing Black feminist ideals into my teaching, I build a classroom where curiosity, compassion, and cultural consciousness are valuable and desired contributions.

My teaching interests are in Black feminist theories, Black theatre and performance, popular music and culture, practice-as-research, and Black critical theory. In these myriad disciplines, I bridge theory and practice in order to model for students ways to merge their scholarly interests with their creative, activist, and socially relevant pursuits. The goal, I hope, is to cultivate engaged community members and global citizens. I have taught courses at the University of Rochester, University of Maryland, College Park, and Howard University.

Selected courses taught: Black Feminist Theory & Criticism, Black Theatre and Performance, and Theatre History.