About
I am a lecturer in English at Penn State University, University Park campus. I teach first year rhetoric and composition.
In the Spring of 2017 I took my doctorate at West Virginia University, with a dissertation arguing that contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy evoke a cosmopolitan cultural commons to resist neoliberal capitalism. I am currently turning that project into a book manuscript. Education
PhD in English from West Virginia University, 2017
MA in English from University of Vermont, 2011
BA in English from Shepherd University, 2009 Publications
“Salt Fish: Fishing and the Creation of Empires in Pericles and Contemporary Oceans.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 82, no. 2, Summer 2017, pp. 78-96.
“Charles de Gaulle Airport: The Camp as Neoliberal Containment Site in Two Trojan Women Adaptations.” Comparative Drama, vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 1-21.
“Compromised Epistemologies: The Ethics of Historiographic Metatheatre in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and Arcadia.” Modern Drama, vol. 59, no. 3, Sept. 2016, pp. 302-326.
“‘Kill the Pity in Us’: The Communal Crisis as Crisis of Individualism in David Greig’s Oedipus the Visionary.” Text & Presentation, 2015, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 70-86.
