• UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA ENTERPRISE AND ENGAGEMENT GRANT, 2014-2015

• Cambridge University Visiting Fellowship-Corpus Christi College, autumn 2011

• ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF THEATER STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2011

• Andrew Mellon Assistant Professor of Theater Studies, DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2010-2011

• Mellon Fellowship for Franklin Humanities Book Workshop, DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2010

• american academy OF ARTS AND SCIENCES FELLOWSHIP, 2008-2009

• MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2001-2002

About

In my research and teaching of literature, music, and drama, I’m interested in questions of culture as well as aesthetics (more in my CV). My Ph.D. work in the University of Chicago's Comparative Literature department focused on Richard Wagner's political and aesthetic use of ancient Greek literature and culture. As a Mellon postdoc in the University of Pennsylvania’s music department, I taught courses on music and literature while writing about performance studies and opera. As an associate professor at Duke University, I brought iPods into the classroom, created a song cycle based on Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk, and used dramaturgy and performance studies to expand our department’s ideas about theater. Currently at University of East Anglia, I am expanding my work to include more public scholarship on topics as disparate as sound studies, Greek tragedy, and blackface minstrel shows. Also the director of UEA’s new media centre, I help my colleagues develop Digital Humanities projects, incorporate technology into their teaching, and find ways of introducing new media into their research.  As a working-class scholar who has spent my life in academic institutions of privilege I am mindful of the need for diversity and openness in the academy and elsewhere.