Education
- Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A. in Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.F.A. in Drama, University of Oklahoma
- B.A. in English, University of Oklahoma
Selected Publications
- “Women Adapting: Bringing Three Serials of the Roaring Twenties to Stage and Screen (Studies in Theatre History and Culture)." University of Iowa Press. 2019.
- "Adapting Traditions: Lacunae Surrounding the 1934 Film Adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton Review 34.2. 101-123. 2018.
- “Gentlemen Prefer Adaptations: Industry and Gender in Adaptation Studies.” Theatre Journal. 66.4. 559-79. 2014.
- “Incorporation of the Incar(nation): Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King.” Ecumenica 3.2 (Fall): 7-30. 2010.
- “Ol’ (Wo)man River?: Broadway’s Gendering of Edna Ferber’s Show Boat.” Studies in Musical Theatre 4.3. 321-30. 2010.
- “War and Reclamation: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Mine Eyes Have Seen and The Crisis’ Campaign to Reclaim Black Masculinity in a Nation at War.” New England Theatre Journal 21. 47-69. 2010.
Selected Presentations
- "Adapting Adaptation Studies: Editorial Adaptation in Edna Ferber's Show Boat," Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Denver
- "Using Theatre History to Address Gender in Adaptation Studies," Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Meeting, Boston
- A Women Writers and the Adaptation Industry, 1910-1930,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Meeting, Chicago
- “Theatre, Film, and Diversity,” panel discussion, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 5, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota
- “The Quality of Zeal: Critical Response to Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Zeal of Thy House,” Dorothy L. Sayers Society Annual Meeting, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- “’Dark Brown Negresses’: (Mis)Constructing Race and Gender Through Florence Mills and Show Boat,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Meeting, Orlando
Selected Works
- Director — Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
- Director — Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Professional Organizations
- Women and Theatre Program
- Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Honors and Awards
- 2016 Edith Wharton Society Award for Archival Research
- 2016 Awad Scholarly Activities and Development Award, Southwest Baptist University
- 2014 Barbara Reynolds Award, The Dorothy L. Sayers Society
- 2011 Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Research Fellowship, American Society for Theatre Research