My work at Caltech is dedicated to supporting faculty researchers, but I also continue to maintain an active research profile in my own field(s) in my spare time. I am primarily a scholar of performance histories; my research lives at the intersections of poetry, drama, and music in early modern Europe. Much of my work is centered on women and writers/performers of other historically marginalized identities; I also have a strong emphasis in Shakespeare studies. My current work in progress applies this scholarly background to creative practice as research, turning a critical and historically informed lens onto my work in dramaturgy and performance.
I am also working on a project in the history of science, still in its early stages: a translation of an anonymous manuscript in French, dated 1691. The translation was originally commissioned by Rare Book Hub. It's a treatise on philosophy and metaphysics, brimming with the new ideas of the early Enlightenment. I am currently revising my completed translation. The next step will be to work with other scholars to uncover the origins of this book and try to identify its author.
Selected publications:
BOOKS
2022. Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut him out in little stars', co-edited with Julia R. Lupton. (London: The Arden Shakespeare / Bloomsbury).
ARTICLES
2019. "Sibylline Voices: Prophecy and Power at the Medici Theater." The Sixteenth Century Journal. Awarded the 2020 SCSC Literature Prize.
2018. "Embodied Voice and the Body Politic: The Dialoghi of Leone de' Sommi." California Italian Studies.