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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Current and Upcoming Projects

Research and publication are an important part of my work as a theatre scholar.

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My research interests:

Theatre:

Dramaturgy, MENA (Middle Eastern North African) Experiences, Theatre and Trauma, Theatre of Social Change, Reception and Reinterpretation of Greek Tragedy, Post-Colonial Theatre Contexts,

Classics:

Women in Tragedy, Ovidian Poetry, Horatian Poetry.

2022 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  •  Society for Classic Studies 2022 Annual Meeting

    • ​“Talkback: An Adaptation of Hippolytus” with the Committee for Ancient and Modern Performance

  • ​ Mid-America Theatre Conference, Theatre History Symposium, March 2022 

    • ​“A PERSONAL REVOLUTION: Alemseged Tesfai’s The Other War and the Eritrean Revolution” 

  • SETC’s 73rd Annual Convention 

    • Dramaturging Artistic Approaches to Adaptation Through Movement​

  • Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of America Conference 2022/Congreso 2022

    • “Ambassadors, Advocates and Artists - How Early Career Dramaturgs Create Art and Help Define Community through Community Theater”  Digital Panel with co-coordinator Melanie Anthony and others, July 2022 (upcoming)

  •  Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2022

    • “Constructing the Maternal: Immigrant Motherhood in Heather Raffo’s Noura” Dramaturgies of MENA Motherhood, July 2022 (upcoming)

2021 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • 2021 Association for Asian Performance

    • The Syrian Women: Refugee Performances of Euripides’ “Trojan Women” and “Queens of Syria”

  •  44th Comparative Drama Conference, October 14-16, 2021

    • WOMEN AND WAR: Exploring the Interpersonal Trauma of War through Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” and Alemseged Tesfai’s “The Other War”

PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING

  • Article (upcoming)

    • Constructing the Maternal: Immigrant Motherhood in Heather Raffo’s “Noura”

  • Book Review (upcoming)

    • A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran by Nasser Rahmaninejad

      • accepted for publication, Asian Theatre Journal

  • Article 

    • Retrospective on the 10th annual John F. Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive

      • Theatre Times

  • Online Essay

    • A Conversation About Returning to Community

      • LMDA Dramturging The Phoenix

  • Masters Thesis

    • CARRY IT WITH YOU: Trauma and Identity in Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire and Noura

  • and other upcoming projects that have not been announced

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