Teaching

Research & Teaching Expertise

Performance Art History & Theory

Feminist Performance & Queer Theory

Site-Specificity

Disappearance/Visuality

Cultural Theory

Contemporary Art & Aesthetics

Embodied Pedagogies

Memory, Archives, & Public Commemoration

Political Theatre

I defended my PhD in 2024; watch a short visual interpretation of this research here: Attuning to Sites of Violence: Performing Spectral Relationality Across North America

Teaching & Mentorship Experience

Present - Sessional Professor: Performance as Cultural Practice - Dramatic Arts, Brock University.

2023-Present - Course Director: Critical Contexts, Theory & Performance Studies

Dance Arts Institute, (Formerly The School of Toronto Dance Theatre), Toronto

Aug 2023-Feb 2024 - Integrated Arts Education Assistant (Interim)

Hart House, University of Toronto

2021/22 - Educator in Residence

Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (Mississauga)

In this role I supported community engagement and designed interpretive and educational programming (I designed a program called The Attunement Sessions). Below are a few interpretive videos I created during my time here (cinematography by Vuk Dragojevic).

Winter 2022 - Invited Lecturer

FAH310H5F – Curating Matters: Contexts and Issues in Contemporary Curatorial Practice (Professor Ellyn Walker), University of Toronto UTM

Lecture - Attuning and the Curatorial: Attunement Sessions

2015 - 2022 - Teaching Assistant

THEA 1900 - Sex, Drugs, and Theatre (Professor Moynan King), Theatre and Performance Studies Department, York University, Toronto, ON.

Film 1702 - Introduction to Film Studies (Professor Gillian Helfield), Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto, ON.

Winter 2016 - Invited Lecturer

FILM 338 - Contemporary Issues in Cultural Studies (Professor Keren Zaiontz), Queen’s University Department of Film and Media 

Lecture - The Pedagogical Pursuit in Contemporary Art and Performance Practice 

ARTH 870 – Studies in Canadian Art History - Performance Art (Professor Clive Robertson), Department of Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.   

Winter 2016 – Teaching Assistant

GNDS 120 – Women, Gender and Difference (Professor Scott L. Morgensen), Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

DEVS 350 – Globalization, Gender and Development (Professor Reena Kukreja), Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Summer 2015 - Learning Assistant 

Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver B.C. 

Fall/Winter 2014-2015 – Teaching Assistant

FILM 110 - Film, Culture and Communication (Professors Dorit Naaman & Clarke Mackey), Film and Media Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.