Welcome

I am a scholar-artist specializing in performance studies and feminist care theory  with a PhD in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My dissertation deployed practice-based artistic research, performance ethnography, and dramatic criticism, building theory through performance case studies to examine how we can live as well as possible in a world where neglect and care entangle.

My award-winning research has been published in  Performance Research and Latin American Theatre Review. Blending practice and theory, I engage diverse areas of communication and culture, including theatre, media, performance, social practice art, trans studies, and care. I direct and create performances: My work is three-time award-winning from the UW–Madison Division of the Arts and funded by the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities and Morgridge Center for Public Service. 

My research and artistic practice feeds my teaching; I received a campus-wide teaching award given annually to only 10 of UW–Madison's 2,200 graduate student instructors. 

I hold dual MAs from UW in Gender and Women’s Studies and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies. An affiliate of  the UW Ethics of Care Initiative, I am also a member of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa.