• ENG 102. Writing II
• ENG 203. English Literature I

• Ph.D., University of Michigan (2023)
• M.A., University of Michigan (2018)
• B.A., Knox College (2016)

Publications:

• “Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: Romcom Adaptations and The Taming of the Shrew’s Pop-Feminist Paradox.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 2025. .
• “‘We keep doing this don’t we?’: Disrupting Racial Trauma in Performances of Harlem Duet.” Shakespeare Studies, vol. 52, 2024.

Awards/Honors:

• Shakespeare Association of America, J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize (2024)

Conference Presentations:

• “The Possibilities of Performative Re-Visionings of Othello.” Knowledge Relations, The University of Michigan, Jan. National/International Presentations 2025.
• “‘We keep doing this don’t we?’: Disrupting Racial Trauma in Performances of Harlem Duet.” Shakespeare Association of America’s NextGenPlen Panel, Minneapolis, MN, Apr 2023.
• “Romancing the Shrew, Redeeming the Tamer: Romcom Adaptations and The Taming of the Shrew’s Pop-Feminist Paradox.” Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, Akron, OH, Oct 2022.
• “‘We keep doing this don’t we?’: Disrupting Cyclical Racial Trauma in Performances of Harlem Duet.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Detroit, MI, July 2022.
• “Embodying the ‘Vexed Object’: Performative Reworkings of Othello.” The Shakespearean Theatre Conference, Stratford, Ontario, June 2022

My research focuses on how contemporary adaptations of some of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays can act as windows into popular culture, genre, and current intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class.