Publications and Conferences

ARTICLES

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“Cryonics and Zombie Bar Crawls: Performing Colorado's Frozen Dead Guy Days.” Theatre Annual. Under review.

 

“On Welcoming Ghosts into Your Classroom.” Theatre History Studies. Under review.
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“Hope Springs Eternal: Performing Grief, History and Resilience in Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery.” Performance, Religion & Spirituality 7, no. 1 (April 2026). Peer reviewed.

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“What Happens When We Don’t Listen to Birds: Augury in Ancient Greek Drama.” Ecumenica: Performance and Religion 16, no. 1 (Spring 2023). Peer reviewed.

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BOOK CHAPTERS

 

“The Ghost at the Top of the Stairs: Apparitions of Trauma and White Supremacy in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate.” The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre: Further Readings on the Aesthetics of Disqualification, edited by Michael Chemers and Analola Santana, Routledge (2024).

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Review of Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West for Theatre History Studies 41 (Fall 2022).

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Review of Sarah Balkin’s Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage for Supernatural Studies 7, no. 1 (Winter 2021).

 

FICTION

 

“Him” and “Italy.” Opium Magazine. Eds. Heather Kelley & Todd Zuniga. 2005.

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INTERVIEWS

 

“Dinner Without Andre: Interview with Wallace Shawn.” Opium Magazine. Eds. Heather Kelley, Will Layman & Todd Zuniga. 2006.

 

PLAYS

 

“Instant Messaging is Limited” and “Yours, Mine & Ours.” 225 Plays by the New York Neo-Futurists from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. Ed. Joey Rizzolo. Hope and Nonthings, 2011.

 

“Tap Class.” What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years? An Anthology of the Bush Years, 2000-2008. Ed. David Barringer. Elope Press & So New Publishing, 2008.

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PANELS CONVENED

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• “Reli(e)ving Trauma in Theatre and Performance,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, virtual

• “ReenACTments: Tourist Sites as Reclamation, Reimagining, and Revision of Identity,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, virtual

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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• “Staging the Haunted House: Challenges and Opportunities,” Horror Studies Now, Newcastle, UK, May 2026.

• “On Welcoming Ghosts into Your Classroom,” American Society for Theatre Research, Denver, CO, November 2025.

• “Cryogenics and Zombie Bar Crawls: The Incredible but True Story of Colorado’s Frozen Dead Guy Days,” Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA

• “Cryogenics and Zombie Bar Crawls: The Incredible but True Story of Colorado’s Frozen Dead Guy Days,” American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle, WA

• “Hope Springs Eternal: Performing Grief and Resilience in Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery,” University of Malta School of Performing Arts, virtual

• “Hope Springs Eternal: Performing Grief and Resilience in Boulder’s Columbia Cemetery,” American Society for Theatre Research, Providence, RI

• “Unfinished Business: The Ghosts of Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré,” University of Colorado Boulder Queer Theories Symposium, Boulder, CO

• “Archiving Catastrophe: The Ghosts of Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré,” American Society for Theatre Research, New Orleans, LA

• “Portents, Premonitions, and Prophecies (or: In Defense of the ‘Ghastly’ Margaret),” Wooden O Symposium, virtual

• “Staging the (Im)Possible: Chisa Hutchinson’s Dead and Breathing,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, virtual

• “The Ghost at the Top of the Stairs: Apparitions of Trauma and White Supremacy in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Appropriate,” American Society for Theatre Research, San Diego, CA

• “Reviving the Dead: Untimely Deaths and Theatrical Ghosts,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, virtual

• “Performing The Specter(s) of The Overlook: The Historic Stanley Night Tour,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, virtual

• “Voicing the Voiceless: Marginalized Communities in Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA