Research

My work at Caltech is dedicated to supporting faculty researchers, but I also strive to maintain an active profile in research and creative work in my own field(s) in my spare time. I am a scholar of performance histories; my graduate and postdoctoral research explored the intersections of poetry, drama, and music in early modern Europe (much of it centered on women and writers/performers of other historically marginalized identities). I am also a specialist in Shakespeare studies, and I continue to work in this field as a theater practitioner (dramaturg and producer).

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.