Performance / Disability arts and culture / Critical disability studies / Critical infrastructure studies / Critical access studies / Cultural Policy / Mobilities studies / Voice and Sound / Dramaturgy / Environmental Humanities
Education
PhD, Theatre & Performance Studies
York University
2017-2022, Toronto ON
Dissertation: Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
MA, Theatre & Performance Studies
York University
2016-2017, Toronto ON
MA, Musicology
University of Ottawa
2010-2012, Ottawa ON
Thesis: Embodied Musical Meaning: An interdisciplinary approach to interpreting vocal gesture in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III
BMus, Vocal Performance
Acadia University
2005-2009, Wolfville NS
Publications
(selected)
“Resisting Normality with Cultural Accessibility and Slow Technology” - Leonardo 57.2 - Winter 2024
Co-authored with Eliza Chandler and Carla Rice
“Travel, Mobility, and Kinetic Hierarchies in Disability Performance.” - How Disability Performance Travels: Access, Art, and Internationalization, edited by Christiane Czymoch, Yvonne Schmidt, & Kate Maguire-Rosier - 2023
“The Infrastructural Politics of Post-Pandemic Theatrical Performance” - The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities, edited by Alison Bain and Julie Podmore - Fall 2023
Co-authored with Marlis Schewitzer
“Performances of exposure and ethical spectatorship in Hanna Cormick’s The Mermaid” - Performance Research 26.7 - Fall 2022
““I am Invictus”: Parasport, the Invictus Games, and Disability Performance in Canada” - Theatre Research in Canada 43.1 - Spring 2022
Co-authored with Kelsey Blair
“Reflections on Crip Imitations as Cultural Space-Making” - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 15.4 - 2021
Co-authored with Eliza Chandler
“Virtual reality hope machines in a curative imaginary: recommendations for neurorehabilitation research from a critical disability studies perspective” - Disability and Rehabilitation - Fall 2021
Co-authored with Mary Bunch, Stefania S. Moro, Meaghan S. Adams, and Lauren Sergio
“Sounding a Crip Aesthetic: Transforming the Sonic in Samuel Beckett’s Not I” - Performance Matters 6.2: Sound Acts, Part 1 - Fall 2020
Sound and Performance - Canadian Theatre Review 184 - Fall 2020
Co-edited with Moynan King
“Cripistemologies in the City: 'Walking-Together' as Sense-Making” - Journal of Public Pedagogies: WalkingLab - Fall 2019
Co-authored with Eliza Chandler, Becky Gold, Carla Rice, and Alex Bulmer
“Being in Relationship: Reflections on Dis-Performing, Hospitality, and Accessibility” - Canadian Theatre Review 177 - Winter 2019
Co-authored with Kelsie Acton, Katie Jung, Aimee Louw, Ash McAskill, Marta Simões Peres, seeley quest, and Jessica Watkin
"Integrating Accessibility and Aesthetics Onstage in Neworld Theatre’s King Arthur’s Night" - Canadian Theatre Review 176 - October 2018
Nominated for the Canadian Theatre Critics Association’s Nathan Cohen Award in 2019
Conference Activity (selected)
American Studies Association (ASA) // "Crip Aesthetics and Sonic Revolt in Disability Performance”
Presenter: Revolutions In Sound: Performance Studies Tools for Sound Theory in the Flesh panel
October 2021, Online
Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR)
Working Group: Performance Activism for a Just Transition // “Absence as a Sustainable Tool in Performance”
July 2021, Online
International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR)
Working Group Member: Performance and Disability Working Group
July 2020, Online
Revolutions in Sound: Disrupting Oppression through Revolutions in Sound Symposium // “Sounding a Crip Aesthetic: Transforming the Sonic in Beckett’s Not I”
Invited Presentation
February 2020, Baltimore MD
Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR)
Disability, Pedagogies, and Performance Working Group
2018-2021
ALTER—European Society for Disability Research // "Disability Temporalities: The emancipatory potential of performing sickness”
Presenter: Disability in Arts and Culture panel
September 2019, Cologne DE
Vibe Symposium: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts // "Support, Access, & Interdependence (reflections on a research project)” Co-presenter with Becky Gold: Disability and Theatre Making panel
December 2018, Montreal QC
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) // "Sonic Interventions: Utopian Possibilities of the Extraordinary Voice in Performance"
Working Group Member: ‘Prick up the Ears’: Listening to the Subalterns’ Sonic Revolutions
November 2018, San Diego CA
Sick Theories: A Trans-Disciplinary Conference on Sickness and Sexuality // "The performative temporalities of sickness"
Presenter: Performance & Embodied Art Practices panel
November 2018, Toronto ON
Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR) // "Excavating Sound: Shaping a Performance/Sound Studies Forum"
Curated Panel Co-organizer with Moynan King
May 2018, Kingston ON
Canadian Association of Theatre Research (CATR) // "Interdependence as Infrastructure in Disability Performance"
Presenter: Fieldwork: Excavations and Exchanges in Drama, Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies panel
May 2018, Kingston ON
York University Critical Disability Studies Student Association (CDSSA)
Moderator: Disability, Art, and Disruption panel
April 2018, Toronto ON
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Selected graduate student, Mobilities Pedagogies Symposium
March 2018, Waterloo ON
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) // "Being Witchy: The fluid and transmutable embodiment of the musical stage witch"
Working Group Member: Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference” Conference
November 2017, Atlanta GA
Hemispheric Institute Graduate Student Initiative // "Disability and the Interanimation of Space"
Working Group Member: Dis-performing: Disability and Performance Working Group
October 2017, Toronto ON
York University // "Transgressing Corporeal Boundaries: The Politicized Dancing Body"
Presenter: Symposium for Research [In]Between and Beside Bodies, Movement, and Performance
October 2016, Toronto ON
International Network for Alternative Academia // "Phenomenology of Performance: Exploring Musical Meaning in the Performing Body"
Presenter: Music and the Creation of Meaning Symposium
October 2012, Montreal QC
Research Experience
YORK UNIVERSITY // 2020-2021
Research Assistant, Dr. Mary Bunch, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD)
BODIES IN TRANSLATION: // 2018 – 2019
Access Research Assistant, Artist-in-Residence Program
BERLINKLUSION // Summer 2018
Research Assistant
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA // 2011 – 2012
Research Assistant, Dr. Lori Burns, School of Music
Teaching
YORK UNIVERSITY - 2021
Teaching Assistant, Skills for Success in the Arts
Conducted tutorial sessions for undergraduate students
Facilitated group discussions, administered class activities, lectured
Reviewed and marked students’ written work
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA - 2012
Teaching Assistant, Forms and Styles III: Late Classical/ Early Romantic (Music History course)
Developed and taught review sessions and tutorials for undergraduate students
Created and marked written assignments and exams
Coordinated student evaluations and proctored examinations
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA - 2012
Teaching Assistant, Sound of Rock (Rock Music History course)
Developed and taught review sessions and tutorials for undergraduate students
Created and marked written assignments and exams
Completed administrative duties and technical set-up for lectures
Coordinated student evaluations and proctored examinations
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA - 2011
Opera Productions Assistant
Oversaw rehearsals and organized students
Provided artistic and logistical support to Director
Created publicity materials
Organized volunteers for publicity, props, costumes, rehearsals, etc.
Awards
Abella Scholarship for Studies in Equity - York University - 2021-2022
Susan Mann / Provost Dissertation Scholarship - York University - 2021-2022
Joseph-Armand Bombardier – CGS Doctoral Scholarship - SSHRC - 2018-2021
Elia Scholars Program - York University - 2017-2021
Wilhelm Cohnstaedt Social Justice Award - York University - 2020
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Government of Ontario - 2018-2019 (declined)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - Government of Ontario - 2017-2018
Dramaturgy Driven Grant (runner-up) - Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) - 2017
Graduate Fellowship - York University - 2016-2017
Admission Scholarship - University of Ottawa - 2010-2012
Dr. Don Wright Award in Music - Acadia University - 2007
Dean’s List Scholarship - Acadia University - 2006
Service
Director - Independent Living Nova Scotia - 2023-Current
Reviews Editor - Performing Ethos: The International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance
Board Co-Chair - Choirs for Change - 2021-2023
Volunteer - Tangled Art + Disability - 2017-2020
Board Secretary - Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Canada - 2019-2021
Secretary - York University T&PS Graduate Students' Association - 2016-2018
Treasurer - York University T&PS Graduate Students' Association - 2019-2020
Conference Programming Committee - Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) - 2017
Reader - Bay Area Playwrights Festival - 2016-2018
President - University of Ottawa Graduate Music Students' Association - 2008-2009