Scholarship
My scholarship tends towards the transformative possibilities of Black creativity and feminist, queer worldmaking through language, sound, and movement. Generally, my research coalesces at the intersections of Black theatre and performance, Black feminist theories and praxis, musical theatre history, Black girlhood studies, Black critical theory, popular music, sound studies, practice-as-research, and reproductive justice. I read blackness, sound, and performance across expressive culture including but not limited to theatre, popular music, and visual culture.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
“MT/D, or Change: An Anti-Racist Musical Theatre Reading Group.” Studies in Musical Theatre 16.1 (2022): 53-76. (Co-authored with Donatella Galella, Masi Asare, Fred Moten, SAJ, Hye Won Kim, Matthew D. Morrison, Karen Shimakawa, and Celine Parreñas Shimizu.)
“crushed little stars: a praxis-in-process of blk girlhood.” Girlhood Studies 14.2 (2021): 16-28.
Reviews
Staging Black Fugitivity by Stacie Selmon McCormick. Frontiers: Augmented.
“School Girls, or, The African Mean Girls Play.” Theatre Journal 72.2 (June 2020): 232-233.
Professional Affiliations
American Studies Association
National Women’s Studies Association
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Black Women’s Studies Association