Performance Scholar, Research Facilitator, Knowledge Mobilizer, Mezzo Soprano

I am a performance studies scholar and research facilitator specializing in disability arts and culture. Most of my work is focused on cultural policy, infrastructural politics, critical access, and expanded dramaturgy, and I also dabble in sound studies, mobility studies, and the environmental humanities.

In 2022 I completed my PhD in theatre & performance studies from York University, where my dissertation was a critical analysis of the infrastructural politics of contemporary disability performance. During this time I sojourned into a variety of fascinating internships and research projects, including working with Dr. Mary Bunch in York’s Cinema & Media Studies department, for the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and with the disability arts collective Berlinklusion in Berlin, Germany. Prior to beginning my doctorate I honed my skills in arts and office administration by working as a Program Coordinator at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta and as a Program Assistant at the Champlain LHIN in Ottawa, Ontario. Following my PhD I was a Research Associate and Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow with the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph.

Currently, I am Research Facilitator in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University. I am also a 2023-24 Action Canada Fellow—a public policy leadership training program for emerging leaders from across Canada. I am a collaborator with the Disability Publics Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University as well as Reviews Editor for Performing Ethos: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance.

I am a classically trained mezzo-soprano, though my musical interests skew towards expanded voice and the ultra contemporary. In recent years I have turned to practice-as-research (PaR) approaches to better serve my interest in both academic inquiry and live performance. When I'm not up to my ears in reading, I like to hike, swim, and take long streetcar rides in search of vegan cinnamon buns.

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